Dominic Widdows
Principal Deep Learning Data Scientist, AI Solutions
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDominic Widdows is a Principal Deep Learning Data Scientist and AI veteran with 11+ years building and scaling production ML, NLP, and search systems across Google, Microsoft, Grab, LivePerson, IonQ, and AMD. He blends hands-on engineering (C++, Python, Java, C#, Go) with deep research—authoring 70+ peer-reviewed papers and inventing production-facing algorithms and systems from word embeddings to internationalized NLU. As a founder and leader he grew Grab’s Seattle office to 100+ people and has repeatedly taken projects from research to launch-at-scale while iterating on customer feedback. At IonQ he bridged quantum and classical ML, contributing patents and demonstrable system optimizations such as uptime and gate-count reductions, and today focuses on optimizing generative AI on cutting-edge hardware. Trained as a mathematician (PhD, Oxford), he pairs rigorous theory with pragmatic product delivery—and in his spare time writes and performs unexpectedly nerdy songs like “Informative Exceptions.”
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics at University of OxfordBachelor of Arts (BA) Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Mathematics at Durham University
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Github Skills (72)
intermediate10
wordnet10
api10
sdk10
topic-modeling10
google10
editing10
simulation10
similarity10
semantic10
multiprocessing10
sentence-similarity10
quantum-algorithms9
scale9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mwahle/Hello-Wiki
Jul 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 3 months
individualindexjava-libraryxmlwikipedia
LivePersonInc/lplangid
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
This package is a python implementation of the classifier described in the paper "Language Identification with a Reciprocal Rank Classifier".
Contributions:1 review, 21 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 4 months
nlppythonclassifierpython-implementationnlp-language-identification
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