Robert Daland
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Daland is a Senior Software Engineer at Apple working on Siri's Natural Language Understanding, bringing 12 years of experience that bridges linguistic theory and production engineering. With a Ph.D. in Linguistics and a master's in Mathematics, he previously served as an assistant professor at UCLA where he led sophisticated corpus, statistical, and computational modeling of phonology and atypical language populations. He combines academic rigor in experimental and mathematical modeling with hands-on software development to improve language understanding systems. Based in San Jose, he leverages his rare dual background as a linguist-turned-engineer to translate theoretical insights into scalable NLU features for consumer-facing AI.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematics, Master's degree, Mathematics at North Carolina State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics at Northwestern University
English, French, Russian
Github Skills (4)
rpg10
crawler10
roguelike9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rdaland/Robert-Daland
Jan 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:12 PRs, 11 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 10 months
rdaland/Pheatures
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018
Natural classes <--> Phonological features
Contributions:4 PRs, 60 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
phonological-featuresnatural
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