Ben Hachey
Principal Scientist at University of Sydney
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Hachey is a Principal Scientist and AI leader with 20+ years’ experience applying machine learning and NLP to real-world workflows across healthcare, legal, regulatory and news domains. He combines hands-on product-driven AI engineering with team building and R&D leadership, having led Applied AI teams that shipped medical imaging models and built evaluation frameworks for legal research products. A frequent academic collaborator and former DECRA fellow, he has supervised many PhD students and translated research into industry impact, including de-identification and synthetic health data. Now splitting time between Thomson Reuters, university affiliations and consulting/angel investments, he focuses on AI evaluation, human-in-the-loop systems and high-leverage product strategy. He holds a PhD in Informatics from Edinburgh and brings the rare blend of deep research rigor with operational delivery in regulated settings.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science and Linguistics Spanish minor, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science and Linguistics Spanish minor at University of Minnesota
Spanish, ojibwa
Github Skills (29)
named-entity-recognition10
text-classification10
language-processing10
cython10
disambiguation10
turkish10
entity10
arabic-nlp9
data-science9
evaluation9
conll9
artificial-intelligence9
entity-linking9
python9
industrial9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wikilinks/conll03_nel_eval
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:67 commits in 6 months
nlpaidapythonconllevaluation
hachey/hachey.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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