Charles Welch
Assistant Professor at McMaster University
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Welch is an Assistant Professor and AI researcher with a decade of experience bridging academic research and applied software development. He earned a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Michigan and has worked on dialog systems and NLP since his graduate work with the LIT lab, including a Siri NLP internship at Apple. His academic trajectory includes postdoctoral research and leadership of a junior research group in Germany before joining McMaster University, reflecting international research leadership and mentoring experience. Prior roles in industry building web applications with Java and C# give him practical engineering chops alongside theoretical depth. Colleagues value his ability to translate cutting-edge NLP research into teachable courses and reproducible experiments. An understated strength is his history of moving between rigorous academic environments and production-focused engineering teams, enabling pragmatic, research-informed solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Okemos High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence at University of MichiganBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Kettering University
Github Skills (21)
docker8
nlp5
natural-language-processing5
mastodon5
transformers4
pytorch4
pixelfed4
activitypub4
bert4
federation4
lora4
huggingface3
transformer3
microblogging3
python2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cfwelch/compositional_demographic_embeddings
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Repository for Compositional Demographic Word Embeddings, Welch et al. 2020 @ EMNLP and Exploring the Value of Personalized Word Embeddings, Welch et al. 2020 @ COLING
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 1 year 4 months
cfwelch/time_aware
Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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