Don Tuggener
Research Associate
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDon Tuggener is a research-focused computational linguist and machine learning practitioner based in Zurich with nine years of experience bridging academic research and applied NLP. Currently a Research Associate at ZHAW School of Engineering and co-founder of Legartis, he translates advanced language technologies into practical systems for professional and legal domains. His PhD (summa cum laude) and postdoc work center on co-reference resolution, discourse analysis and natural language interaction, including building behavioural simulators for training. He has a strong track record in corpus creation, statistical analysis and web service tooling from multi-year projects at the University of Zurich. Equally comfortable in research and product settings, he combines deep linguistic insight with hands-on system development and entrepreneurial experience. A background in digital sound synthesis hints at a broader curiosity for signal and pattern processing beyond text.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Pädagogische Hochschule ZürichDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics, summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics, summa cum laude at University of ZurichZHAW School of EngineeringDigital Sound Synthesis (Csound), Digital Sound Synthesis (Csound) at HMT Zürich (now HDKZ)
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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716reached
3answers
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Github Skills (41)
compound10
data-science9
splitter9
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
neural-network7
jax7
nlp6
hash6
natural-language-processing6
lemmatization6
wikipedia6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dtuggener/LEDGAR_provision_classification
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:89 commits, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
dtuggener/CharSplit
Dec 2016 - Apr 2020
Compound splitter for German
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 3 months
splittercompound
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