Brendan Kennedy
Data Scientist III
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Kennedy is a data scientist and NLP-focused machine learning engineer with a decade of experience bridging academic research and production systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from USC and has applied his expertise at Twitter and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, contributing productionized search improvements and content-understanding models using PyTorch and TensorFlow. His work spans computational social science, large-scale text annotation, and interpretability methods, with DARPA-funded research on online influence campaigns among his projects. Brendan combines rigorous scientific publishing with hands-on engineering to move novel research into measurable product impact, often surfacing language-derived signals for recommendation and search systems. Notably, he brings a transdisciplinary lens—melding social science questions with NLP—to uncover signal that standard pipelines miss.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Gonzaga University
Github Skills (26)
decomposition5
interpretation4
corpus3
nlp3
latent-dirichlet-allocation3
topic-modeling3
crawling2
machine-learning2
modeling-tool2
architecture2
digital-humanities2
python2
rapid2
modeling2
tca2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
USC-CSSL/NTAP
May 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:83 commits, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 4 months
BrendanKennedy/contextualizing-hate-speech-models-with-explanations
May 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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