Chris Hokamp
Principal Scientist at Quantexa
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolChris Hokamp is a Principal Scientist and NLP Group lead at Quantexa with 14 years' experience building production-grade NLP systems that scale to millions of documents and link entities to knowledge bases of hundreds of millions of entries. He leads development of practical ML products—ranging from ultra-fast interpretable sequence-labelers and cloud-gapped LLM fine-tuning for Kubernetes to massively multilingual MT and real-time event clustering pipelines. His research roots (PhD in Computer Science) inform work on computational semantics, knowledge representation, and sequence-to-sequence models, bridging academic rigor with product delivery. Chris has repeatedly delivered end-to-end solutions for entity extraction, relation classification, text2network pipelines and summarization that power enterprise analytical workflows. Based in Dublin, he pairs deep technical leadership with hands-on engineering and a knack for turning complex ontologies into efficient inference systems. Outside work he’s a regularly gigging drummer, a detail that reflects his affinity for pattern, timing and collaborative improvisation in team settings.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music/German, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music/German at Trinity UniversityPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Dublin City UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics, Master of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics at University of North Texas
Turkish, German
Stackoverflow
70reputation
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Github Skills (68)
beam-search10
neural-machine-translation10
machine-translation9
dcu9
nlp9
fairness-ml9
deep-learning9
pytorch9
language-processing9
decoding9
estimate9
sequence9
relation-extraction9
translation9
tensorflow9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
qe-team/marmot
Dec 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:131 commits, 1 PR, 94 pushes in 1 year 6 months
nlpextractionfeature-extractionmachine-translationtranslation
AYLIEN/fine-grained-event-classification
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:50 commits, 3 pushes in 4 months
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