Jacob Eisenstein
Research Scientist at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Eisenstein is a research scientist at Google with 14 years of experience applying natural language processing at the intersection of academia and industry. A former tenured faculty member at Georgia Tech and MIT PhD, he blends deep theoretical grounding with practical system-building from roles at Facebook and Google. His work spans core NLP research, sentiment analysis, and evaluation methods—evidenced by course materials and a lexicon-based sentiment classifier contributed to the popular GT NLP class repository. Based in Seattle, he focuses on rigorous evaluation and interpretable models that bridge research and production. Colleagues know him for thoughtful scholarship and for being sparing on social platforms—he's deliberate about where he engages, prioritizing impactful contributions over volume.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
sentiment-analysis10
nlp10
python10
data-analysis10
classification9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jacobeisenstein/gt-nlp-class
Feb 2013 - Mar 2022
Course materials for Georgia Tech CS 4650 and 7650, "Natural Language"
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 629 commits in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jacob's contributions focused on enhancing the project's sentiment analysis capabilities. Their commit introduced a sentiment vocabulary file (`sentiment-vocab.tff`) and implemented a basic sentiment classifier using this lexicon, demonstrating an understanding of sentiment analysis techniques. The user also enhanced the project by adding scorer and confusion matrix implementations to evaluate the classification performance, showing focus on result analysis.
nlpgeorgiamachine-learninggeorgia-technatural-language
jacobeisenstein/bayes-seg
Aug 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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