Summary
Radu Ion is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with over a decade of experience specializing in NLP, applied mathematics and probabilistic methods, currently leading custom ML solutions in Python and PyTorch from Brasov, Romania. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (magna cum laude) and has a strong research-to-production track record spanning Microsoft, RACAI and multiple EU projects where he developed EM-based document alignment and parallel sentence mining algorithms. Radu maintains and releases open tools and datasets (TEPROLIN, TTL, EMACC/PEXACC/LEXACC, Parallel Wiki) used for text preprocessing and comparable-corpus mining, and administers RACAI’s MetaShare node. Equally comfortable in rapid prototyping (Perl, R, Octave) and production engineering, he blends academic rigor—evident in program committee roles at major conferences—with practical deployment of spellers, grammar checkers and NER across languages. A less obvious strength is his long-standing focus on interoperability and standards compliance, ensuring NLP components and resources integrate smoothly across projects and languages.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, magna cum laude at PhD - School of Advanced Studies of the Romanian Academy (SCOSAAR)
Master's Degree, Linguistics, Master's Degree, Linguistics at University of Bucharest
Postgraduate studies, Computer Science, Postgraduate studies, Computer Science at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
Greek, English, Romanian