Nathan Duran
Lecturer at University of the West of England
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNathan Duran is a Lecturer and PhD researcher in Artificial Intelligence based in Bristol with nine years of experience bridging software development and human-computer conversational interfaces. He teaches and tutors postgraduate students while researching conversational AI at the University of the West of England, combining practical classroom practice (PCAP) with applied research. Earlier industry experience at IBM gave him hands-on skills in integration services, DB2, BPM and JavaScript visualization—skills he now applies to designing interactive conversational systems. Nathan’s background running volunteer digital literacy programs and kitchen leadership roles reflects a practical, user-focused approach and an ability to coordinate diverse teams and stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Higher Education Diploma, Combined Studies, Distinction, Higher Education Diploma, Combined Studies, Distinction at Bath CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at University of the West of England
Github Skills (12)
lstm-model10
utterances10
keras10
lstm10
recurrent-neural-networks10
switchboard10
corpus10
classification10
python9
jupyter6
artificial-intelligence5
algorithm5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NathanDuran/Probabilistic-RNN-DA-Classifier
Apr 2018 - Jul 2020
Probabilistic Dialogue Act Classification for the Switchboard Corpus using an LSTM model
Contributions:24 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
classificationlstm-modelrecurrent-neural-networkslstmrnn
NathanDuran/Conversation-Analysis-Modelling-Schema
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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