Simon Varey
Natural Language Generation Research Fellow
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Varey is a Natural Language Generation Research Fellow with a PhD in philosophy and a graduate certificate in computational linguistics, combining deep theoretical grounding in language with four years of hands-on NLP and software development experience. He designs and implements NLG systems—using JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, knowledge graphs and classical ML models—to automatically generate accessible text summaries of visual charts for people with vision impairments. His background teaching logic and philosophy informs a rigorous, semantics-driven approach to corpus analysis and system design, while prior editing experience tightens his attention to clear, user-centered communication. Comfortable bridging academia and product-focused teams, he moves research into production-grade open-source tools that directly impact accessibility.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyThe University of MelbourneDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Philosophy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (57)
fundamentals10
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web-standards10
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documentation10
json9
euler9
compatibility9
rust9
fedora8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
simonvarey/content
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
The content behind MDN Web Docs
Contributions:50 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
mdn
simonvarey/value-semantics
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
All the functions you need to program as if objects in JavaScript had value semantics, including comprehensive and highly customisible deep cloning and equality functions
Contributions:4 PRs, 54 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
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