Kyle Williams
Senior Manager, Applied Research at Thomson Reuters
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Williams is a senior applied research manager and machine learning scientist with a PhD from Penn State and over a decade of experience building NLP and ML systems that serve millions of users across healthcare, conversational agents, and search. He has moved models from conception to production at scale through roles at Microsoft, Alkymi, and now Thomson Reuters, and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in information retrieval and NLP. Known for handling datasets with millions of points, he blends deep research rigor with product-focused engineering to deliver robust, deployable solutions. As a manager he bridges research and applied teams, mentoring engineers while keeping a hands-on role in model development and evaluation. A background that spans academia, industry research internships, and even early leadership in music education gives him an unusually broad perspective on team building and communication.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of Cape TownDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer and Information Sciences General, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer and Information Sciences General at Penn State University
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Github Skills (17)
medical8
image-processing7
computer-vision6
playframework6
deep-learning6
lucene6
cntk6
python6
multithreading6
java6
mysql6
efficientnet5
machine-learning5
pytorch4
object-detection3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kyle0x54/medvision
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
python library for medical computer vision
Contributions:3 releases, 116 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 1 month
python-librarypythonvisioncomputer-visionmachine-learning
kyle0x54/umtk
Oct 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 42 pushes in 6 months
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