Scott Ferguson
Founder Chief AI Officer at Kezo Inc.
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Ferguson is a founder and Chief AI Officer who helps investors and executives make smart AI decisions for industrial markets, blending eight years of applied AI practice with deep academic roots in computational linguistics (PhD, Harvard). He founded Ferguson Analytics and serves as an AI advisor and limited partner at MoreThan Capital while advising startups like Kezo, translating research-grade techniques into business impact across energy and industrial customers. Previously he led Data Analytics and AI at New Era Technology and built analytics teams and integration platforms at McDermott and Shaw, giving him strong domain experience in energy and enterprise systems. Scott’s background includes a postdoc in language technology from the University of Geneva, which explains his fluency in both language-centered AI and production-ready analytics. He combines strategic investor-facing guidance with hands-on model and architecture judgment, often focusing on pragmatic deployment and risk-aware adoption. Based in Houston, he brings an uncommon mix of academic rigor, operator experience, and investor perspective to industrial AI decisions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Linguistics (Syntax Computational Linguistics), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Linguistics (Syntax Computational Linguistics) at Harvard UniversityPost Doc Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Technologie du Langage, Post Doc Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Technologie du Langage at University of GenevaBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Louisiana State University
English
Github Skills (5)
phonetics6
topic-modeling4
nlp4
lda4
natural-language-processing3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ksferguson/home
Jun 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
ksferguson/chasing
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Language Models with Rare Words
Contributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 month
nlpldaphoneticswordslanguage-models
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