William Mcneill
Senior Data Scientist
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Mcneill is a senior data scientist and computational linguist with 16+ years of professional experience building NLP and ML systems for enterprises from Microsoft Windows to IBM Watson and SparkCognition. He blends a physics-backed mathematical foundation and graduate training in linguistics to design practical language models, parsers, and named-entity systems that scale to large document collections and billions of records. At IBM he helped evolve Watson’s QA and embedding pipelines, and at SparkCognition he led DeepNLP research and architecture for commercial document search and management. A long-time professional developer since 1994, he favors functional programming and deep learning while treating software as a social system—creating maintainable platforms that empower other engineers.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Linguistics, MA, Linguistics at University of WashingtonBS, Physics, BS, Physics at Cornell University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (182)
parallel10
python10
annotations10
standardized10
differentiation10
datasets10
deep-learning10
gpu10
fairness-ml10
cython10
label-studio10
ray10
optimization10
labeling10
bounding-box10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wpm/Boost-Implicit-Graph-Example
Jun 2010 - Jul 2010
Contributions:71 commits in 22 days
wpm/Dorado
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:103 commits in 3 months
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