Doug Beeferman
Research Scientist at Datamuse Corporation
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDoug Beeferman is a research scientist and software engineer with 20+ years of experience building search, speech, and NLP systems used by researchers, journalists, and educators. Based in the Bay Area, he blends hands-on engineering (Python, JS/React, C++, AWS/GCP) with academic-style research at MIT Media Lab’s Lab for Social Machines, focusing on conversation analysis, topic modeling, fairness in ASR, polarization, and misinformation. He founded Datamuse to create widely used word and phrase search tools and APIs, and has led production transcription and semantic search pipelines for projects like Cortico’s talk-radio and civic-monitoring systems. Known for bridging production-grade infrastructure with experimental ML (TensorFlow, PyTorch), he also mentors students and manages distributed contributors, turning complex social-data problems into practical, reproducible tools.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Engineering / Computer Science, BS Engineering / Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Stackoverflow
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65reached
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Github Skills (9)
google-search6
deep-learning6
tensorflow6
seed5
twitter4
google3
corpus3
datasets3
parquet2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mit-ccc/RadioTalk
Nov 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
social-machines/twitter-expand-influencers
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Tool for finding a set of influential Twitter handles related to some topic, given a small input seed set
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
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