Paul Landes
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Landes is a postdoctoral researcher and NLP/ML specialist with 17 years of experience building production and research systems across healthcare, finance, GIS, and legal domains. He combines deep academic work in biomedical NLP (PhD, UIC) with industry impact—authoring two patents and an IT book, leading open-source projects, and deploying novel PHI-tagging and transformer models that achieved state-of-the-art de-identification results. At UIC he mentors students, secures NIH-style grants, and designs practical methods for corpus bootstrapping and faster LLM inference for clinical text. His track record spans R&D roles at Argonne, Blue Cross, United Airlines, and startups, blending reproducible research frameworks with production-ready engineering. Notably, his work includes a granted patent on vector-based interactive video systems and a recent large-encoder transformer achieving 99.9% F1 on a benchmark de-identification task.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Biomedical Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Biomedical Natural Language Processing at University of Illinois Chicago
English
Github Skills (158)
gnu-make10
python10
google-sheets10
deep-learning10
academia10
markdown10
rocks10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
emacs10
transformer10
nlp10
elisp10
garmin10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
plandes/clj-py4j
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:6 releases, 49 commits, 47 pushes in 21 days
plandes/zotsite
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
Export Zotero to a stand-alone web site
Contributions:176 commits, 6 PRs, 140 pushes in 4 years 11 months
exportstand-alonestandweb-sitezotero
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