Lee Becker
Team Manager, AI Scientist at Pearson
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolLee Becker is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in human-centered AI with 13 years of experience building production ML systems that turn messy, unstructured data into decision-ready intelligence. He blends deep academic roots in NLP and cognitive science with hands-on engineering across assessment, healthcare, and education domains, evolving from statistical methods to fine-tuned transformers and LLM agents. Known for designing modular architectures that combine rules, discriminative models, and generative systems, he owns the full ML lifecycle from data collection to resilient deployment and evaluation. Lee thrives on high-stakes problems where models must augment expert judgment, and he brings product-minded technical strategy to balance short-term launches with long-term reliability. Based in Boulder, he pairs leadership experience at Pearson, ETS, and now Lattice with a pragmatic researcher’s focus on measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS with honors Computer Science Electrical Engineering, BS with honors Computer Science Electrical Engineering at Colorado School of MinesDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science and Cognitive Science; Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science and Cognitive Science; Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Indonesian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
naive-bayes10
nlp10
corenlp10
uima10
apache9
machine-learning9
python8
pytorch8
data-science7
tensorflow7
deep-learning7
text-mining6
eclipse6
grammar6
api6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
leebecker/sparkle
Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:20 PRs, 61 pushes, 21 branches in 10 months
leebecker/jembatan
Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
Jembatan - A bridge to span various NLP frameworks in Python
Contributions:16 PRs, 52 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years
nlppythonbridgespanword2vec
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