Eben Holderness
Senior Research Engineer at Pryon
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEben Holderness is a Senior Research Engineer with nine years of experience applying computational linguistics and NLP to real-world problems, currently advancing IR-QA and retrieval systems at Pryon. With an MS in Computational Linguistics and ongoing PhD work at Brandeis, he blends rigorous research—probing LLMs' real-world knowledge via temporal event models—with production-focused engineering in AWS and transformer fine-tuning. His background spans clinical NLP (co-authoring NIH grants and deploying interpretable models at McLean Hospital), open-source toolkit development (CLAMS), and teaching/mentoring university courses on annotation and NLP. A former journalist and investigative researcher, he brings a rare mix of linguistic sensitivity, data-driven storytelling, and systems engineering that helps bridge archival/media applications and enterprise retrieval.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Phillips Exeter AcademyHigh School, High School at Brattleboro Union High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Brandeis University
English, French
Github Skills (18)
facebook-page6
scrape6
nodejs4
scraper4
facebook4
react4
firebase4
python3
data-science2
tool-kit2
nlp2
natural-language-processing2
sqf1
things1
buster1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ethicsatbrandeis/readings
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 6 months
HealthcareSquad/Healthcare-App
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:100 commits, 99 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
reacthealthcare-applicationfirebasenodejscosi
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