Robert Logan is a Research Scientist in NLP with a decade of experience bridging academic rigor and industry impact, currently advancing event detection at Dataminr after completing a Ph.D. at UC Irvine under Padhraic Smyth and Sameer Singh. His research blends language modeling and information extraction, with notable work proposing the FRUIT task at Google and publications on streaming cross-document entity coreference. He leverages structured knowledge to improve generation and representations, translating theory into practical systems through internships at Google and Diffbot and earlier applied analytics at Prologis. A dual BA in Mathematics and Economics and a spotless graduate record reflect strong quantitative foundations that inform his interdisciplinary approach to ML problems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
M.S., Computer Science, 4.0, M.S., Computer Science, 4.0 at University of California, Irvine
Neural sequence labeling models for the PCORI project
Contributions:11 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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Robert Logan - Research Scientist, NLP at Dataminr