Ian Soboroff
Group Leader, Retrieval Group at NIST
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolIan Soboroff is a seasoned retrieval scientist and manager with over 15 years leading NIST’s Retrieval Group, where he architects large-scale evaluations for search, NLP, and video access through TREC, TAC, and TRECVID. He designs and builds test collections, measurement methodologies, and tooling that translate real-world information needs into rigorous, reproducible evaluation campaigns. Equally at home writing code, running experiments, building hardware, and publishing papers, he combines hands-on engineering with program-level stewardship of international collaborative research. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he brings deep academic training (BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science from UMBC) to bear on practical problems of measuring system quality—and often invents new test settings for unusual retrieval challenges. A pragmatist who follows Kelvin’s credo about measurement, Ian’s work quietly shapes how search and language systems are compared and improved worldwide.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
French, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
113reputation
996reached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (152)
representations10
twitter10
evaluation10
nlp9
python9
pytorch9
retrieval9
sparse9
information-retrieval9
natural-language-processing9
corenlp8
browser8
deep-learning8
record-linkage8
python-client8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
isoboroff/assess-react
May 2021 - Aug 2023
An assessment tool
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 2 months
assessmentassessment-tool
isoboroff/bench
Jul 2021 - Apr 2024
A topic development workbench in React
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 60 branches in 2 years 8 months
a-topicreactjsreactworkbench
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.