Edgar Meij
Senior AI Engineering Manager AI Platforms
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdgar Meij is a senior AI engineering leader and researcher with 13+ years of experience building web-scale information retrieval, NLP, knowledge graph and ML platforms, currently heading Bloomberg’s global AI Platforms division and overseeing 70+ engineers and researchers. He previously led Bloomberg’s AI Search and Discovery efforts, applying a 40M+ entity knowledge graph to enable complex natural-language queries across financial data under strict latency constraints. A published scientist with 110+ papers and 2,000+ citations, he serves on program committees for major AI/IR conferences and the editorial board of the Information Retrieval Journal, bringing deep academic rigor to production systems. His work blends fundamental research—especially entity-oriented systems and semantic search—with large-scale engineering, and he still codes in C++, Perl and Python when diving into infrastructure or algorithmic tickets. Based in London with a PhD from the University of Amsterdam, he has a rare combination of academic influence and product impact inside one of the world’s most demanding real-time data platforms.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at University of Amsterdam
English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
lucene6
java6
omnifocus3
reminder1
trello1
productivity-tools1
nlp1
knowledge-graph1
semantics1
jira1
natural-language-processing1
retrieval1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ejmeij/entity-linking-and-retrieval-tutorial
May 2013 - Sep 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 9 pushes in 6 years 5 months
kg-bias/kg-bias.github.io
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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