Christopher Brew
Visiting Associate Professor
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Brew is a Principal Applied Scientist with 13+ years in industry and a deep academic pedigree in NLP dating back to the 1980s, now based in Columbus and recently rejoining Thomson Reuters Labs. He blends hands-on applied research—spanning conversational interfaces, automated short-answer scoring, and production-ready NLP systems—with long-standing academic leadership as advisor to ~18 PhD students and author of the textbook Language and Computers (2nd ed., 2024). His work sits at the intersection of product-focused engineering and rigorous research, reflected in an h-index of 33 and deployments used by thousands of students. Christopher teaches part-time at Ohio State, serves on ACL North America’s executive board, and brings the perspective of someone who has repeatedly moved between industry and academia to keep methods both cutting-edge and operationally robust. An underappreciated strength is his track record of shepherding research prototypes into lean, scalable production—skillfully translating complex models into practical systems.
13 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
postdoc, Computational Linguistics, postdoc, Computational Linguistics at The University of EdinburghExchange Student, Exchange Student at Hegel-Gymnasium, Stuttgart Vaihingen, GermanyD.Phil, Natural Language Processing, D.Phil, Natural Language Processing at University of SussexPhysics/Chemistry, Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics/Chemistry, Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at Merchant Taylors SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Chemistry at University of Bristol
German, French
Github Skills (75)
python10
deep-learning10
fairness-ml10
cython10
nlp10
corenlp10
artificial-intelligence10
predict10
text-classification10
natural-language-processing10
transformer-architecture10
pytorch10
named-entity-recognition10
machine-learning10
language-processing10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cbrew/quadruplet
Mar 2020 - Mar 2025
Feature-based chart parser
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 5 years
feature-basedchartparser
cbrew/cbrew.github.io
Nov 2017 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 127 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 1 month
reactnextjs
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