Tom Effland
Co-Founder & CTO at Noetica AI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTom Effland is a Co-Founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building ML-driven products and research systems, currently leading Noetica AI to turn large document collections into actionable knowledge for fintech stakeholders. He holds a PhD from Columbia (thesis on annotation efficiency in biased learning for NLP) and brings practical expertise in making structured NLP models perform better with less and cheaper labeled data. Tom combines deep research—NSF fellowships and publications across ML, IR, and pattern recognition—with hands-on system building from prior roles that ranged from epidemiology-focused social media mining to scalable chatbot and web-crawling prototypes. He’s comfortable spanning the stack: designing loss functions and algorithms in research while shipping production-focused machine reading and KB construction systems. Based in New York, he hires across engineering and research and is focused on reducing manual effort in high-impact, real-world NLP applications.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Frederick Community CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Columbia EngineeringBachelor of Science (BS), Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Applied Mathematics at State University of New York at Buffalo
Github Skills (89)
python10
deep-learning10
data-science10
tensorflow10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
jax9
nlp9
optuna9
prediction9
binder9
tensorboard9
neural-network8
sequential8
hyperparameters8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
teffland/schussapp
Jul 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
teffland/Relation-Extraction
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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