Robert Ridley
PHD Candidate
Nanjing City, Jiangsu, China
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Ridley is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Nanjing University with eight years’ experience building NLP research and production systems since moving from the UK to China in 2013. His work focuses on Grammatical Error Correction, Multi-label Classification, and Automated Essay Scoring, and he pairs that research with practical skills in Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch and full-stack web development. He has a solid foundation in distributed systems and concurrent processing for big data, gained through both academic projects and industry roles developing responsive Java/Spring applications. Robert’s background in audio-electronic engineering and English-language product development gives him an unusual cross-disciplinary perspective on language, signal and pedagogy that informs his NLP work. Based in Nanjing, he consistently bridges rigorous research and hands-on implementation to move models toward real-world educational and web-based deployments.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Nanjing UniversityAudio Electronic Systems Engineering, Engineering, Audio Electronic Systems Engineering, Engineering at Cardiff Metropolitan University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
spark8
presto7
tensorflow7
hadoop7
backend7
data-analysis7
machine-learning6
alluxio6
react5
nodejs5
analytics5
data-science5
kubernetes5
javascript4
frontend4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WisdomEngineering/WisdomMain
Nov 2017 - Oct 2024
WisdomMain is a company website, using React.js on the frontend and Node.js on the backend.
Contributions:1 PR, 306 pushes, 8 branches in 7 years
reactnode-jsjavascriptreact-jsbackend
robert1ridley/ner-tagging
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:45 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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