John Ortega
Faculty Member - NLP Text Analytics at Multiple Companies
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Ortega is an applied researcher and engineering leader specializing in machine learning, natural language processing, and machine translation, with over a decade leading research and production projects across academia and industry. He splits his time as a faculty member at Columbia and an instructor/researcher at NYU while advising startups and serving as a senior architect for enterprises like Nuance, AIG, and JPMorgan Chase. A founder who has started and exited two companies and angel-invested in more than ten startups, he blends hands-on engineering (Python, Java, TensorFlow, Theano) with product and go-to-market experience. His doctorate in machine translation and deep work on clinical NLP and EHR systems reflect a rare combination of linguistic insight and scalable engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical lead who translates complex research into production-ready solutions and mentors cross-functional teams internationally.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Universitat d'AlacantMaster's of Science, Computer Science, Master's of Science, Computer Science at Hofstra UniversityPostgraduate Research, Artificial Intelligence, Postgraduate Research, Artificial Intelligence at Northeastern UniversityBachelor's of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science at Augusta State UniversityPostgraduate Research, Applied Linguistics, Postgraduate Research, Applied Linguistics at Universidad de Santiago de CompostelaInternship Research, Coreference, Internship Research, Coreference at University of Trento / FBK EU
Spanish, English
Github Skills (21)
acl9
computational-linguistics9
phonetics9
natural-language-processing7
speech6
extraction4
keras3
apache-spark3
machine-learning2
harvest2
hadoop2
data-science2
vagrant2
nlp2
tensorflow2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
johneortega/johneortega.github.io
Dec 2021 - Nov 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:69 pushes in 3 years 11 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
johneortega/fuzzy_match_repair
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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