Andrew Cattle
Lecturer at Northeastern University
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAndrew Cattle is an NLP and AI lecturer and researcher with a PhD in Computer Science and a decade of experience building production ML systems and language-driven products. He has moved between academia and industry—publishing on computational humour and figurative language during his PhD work, then operationalizing retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, and prompt engineering at startups and Amazon for voice and meeting-driven applications. Comfortable across Python, Java, Ruby/Rails and modern ML toolchains, he focuses on practical, privacy-conscious deployments (e.g., scaling ingestion to thousands of meetings per hour and administering Qdrant). He pairs rigorous research instincts—having developed novel asymmetric relatedness measures that outperformed word2vec on humour tasks—with hands-on engineering that reduced test failure review by an order of magnitude. Based in Vancouver, he teaches applied AI and mentors capstone projects, acting as the bridge between students, industry sponsors, and real-world product constraints.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Linguistics, Master's Degree Linguistics at Seoul National UniversityBachelor's Degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Software Engineering at University of OttawaHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Korean, French
Stackoverflow
3,093reputation
432kreached
94answers
1question
python
top-5%
wxpython
top-5%
Github Skills (28)
nltk10
python9
machine-learning9
wxpython9
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
python-interface8
network-graph8
igraph7
mathematics7
sorting6
wxwidgets6
media-player6
sql6
regex6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
acattle/HumourTools
Jul 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:92 commits, 13 pushes in 2 years 11 months
acattle/PyWordNetSimilarity
Dec 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.