Ian Porada
Research Scientist at Otter.ai
Montreal, Quebec, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Porada is a research scientist specializing in natural language understanding with nine years of experience focused on commonsense reasoning, plausibility, systematicity, and lexical semantics. He holds a PhD-level affiliation with McGill and Mila and brings a strong blend of academic rigor and industry impact through research roles and internships at Otter.ai, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Currently at Otter.ai after a visiting stint at KAIST, he translates deep language representations into practical products that improve real-world language understanding. Ian’s work emphasizes the gap between statistical models and human-like reasoning, often exploring systematic generalization beyond benchmark performance. He pairs rigorous publication-minded research with an engineer’s pragmatism from multiple top-tier tech internships, making him effective at moving ideas from prototype to production. Based in Montreal, he combines international collaboration experience with a track record of cross-disciplinary problem solving in NLP.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Stevens Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at McGill University
Github Skills (58)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
seq2seq10
flax10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
bert10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
jax10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ianporada/modeling_event_plausibility
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
ianporada/ianporada.github.io
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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