Emily Silgard
Senior ML AI Software Architect Manager at Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Silgard is an Associate Director of Software Engineering with 11 years of experience applying NLP and machine learning to clinical and biomedical problems, now leading engineering at Adaptive Biotechnologies in Seattle. She combines a computational linguistics MS and hands-on data science background to build production pipelines for cohort identification, information extraction, and clinical informatics. Her career spans research-to-product transitions at Fred Hutch and NCI consulting, where she designed enterprise NLP systems that reduced manual burden for clinicians and researchers. Known for blending strategic leadership with technical depth, she also teaches and mentors—having lectured on NLP for cancer informatics—and brings an unusual mix of clinical domain fluency and team-building expertise to deployable ML solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, Computational Linguistics, M.S, Computational Linguistics at University of WashingtonUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Spanish, French, Italian
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Github Skills (63)
bioinformatics10
reproducible-science9
open-science9
tiddlywiki9
documentation8
science8
data-science8
nlp6
thai6
phonetics6
recurrent6
reimplementation5
azure5
sql5
wordnet5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
esilgard/caisis_query_and_de_identify
May 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 9 months
FredHutch/nlp-airflow-dags
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Main Development Branch
Contributions:55 PRs, 53 pushes, 99 branches in 2 months
nlpbigqueryairflow
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