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Manage and engage in the delivery of critical artifacts and infrastructure for research and business directed projects across a diverse spectrum of domains, especially for legal, tax, and news. Focus on a broad range of technical applications involving AI and ML for textual data. Published more than 50 peer reviewed research papers. Awarded nine patents. Areas of AI expertise include research in the fields of information retrieval, natural language processing, data mining, named entity resolution, clustering.


            Passionate about the power of AI transformation in enterprise environments.

Experience

Director, Applied Research, TR Labs, Thomson Reuters (2017-present) Minneapolis, MN, USA

Lead Research Scientist, R&D/C3, Thomson Reuters (2013-2016) Minneapolis, MN, USA

Lead Research Scientist, Catalyst Lab, Thomson Reuters (2011-2013) Baar, ZG, Switzerland

Senior Research Scientist, R&D, Thomson Reuters (2008-2011) Minneapolis, MN, USA

Skills

Programming: Python, R, Git, SQL, HTML/CSS, Java, C

Python Tools: Jupyter Notebook, Scikit-learn, Pandas, Numpy, Spacy, Seaborn, Matplotlib

Cloud-based Applications: AWS resources, incl. Sagemaker

Project Management Tools: AzureDevOps (ADO), Teams, Sharepoint

Education

M.S. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts–Amherst

M.A. in English/Linguistics, University of British Columbia–Vancouver

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)

Languages

Awards

Professional Community Service

Executive Committees

Journal Editorial Boards

Conference Review Committees

Data Science Competition Judging Committees

Publications

Journal Articles

Workshop Papers/Presentations

Tutorials

Patents

  1. Jack G. Conrad, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Scenario Analytics System, Thomson Reuters, Research & Development, EU Patent Number EP3417409B1 U.S. Patent App. Number 20170364827A1, June 7, 2023.

  2. Jack G. Conrad, Michael J. Bender, System and Engine for Seeded Clustering of News Events, Thomson Reuters, Research & Development, U.S. Patent App. Number 11,663,254, May 30, 2023.

  3. Jack G. Conrad, Mans Olof-Ors, Peter Pircher, Systems and Methods for Data Evaluation and Classification, Thomson Reuters, TR Labs, U.S. Patent Number 11,449,218, September 20, 2022.

  4. Domingo Huh, Julian Brooke, Elnaz Davoodi, Jack G. Conrad, Systems and Methods for Context Aware Searching, Thomson Reuters, TR Labs, U.S. Patent Number 11,222,027, January 11, 2022.

  5. Jack G. Conrad and Joanne R.S. Claussen, Information Retrieval Systems with Database-Selection Aids, Thomson Reuters, Research & Development, U.S. Patent Number 10,650,058, May 12, 2020.

  6. Jack G. Conrad, Christopher C. Dozier, Sriharsha Veeramachaneni, Systems, Methods, and Software for Entity Relationship Resolution, Thomson Reuters, Research & Development, U.S. Patent Number 9,600,509, May 21, 2017.

  7. Jack G. Conrad, Forrest Rhoads, Dan Dabney, Bob Haschart, Howard Turtle, Kinley Larntz, Po Yang, and Dan Gannon, System and Method of Processing Formatted Text Documents in a Database, Thomson Reuters, Research & Development, U.S. Patent Number 9,483,472, November 1, 2016.

  8. Peter Pircher, Jochen Lothar Leidner, Aaron Cooper, Dan Dabney, Jonathan Medin, and Jack G. Conrad, Synchronizing Annotations between Printed Documents and Electronic Documents, Thomson Reuters, TR Global Resources, U.S. Patent Number 9,436,665, September 6, 2016.

  9. Qiang Lu, Jack G. Conrad, Michael Dahn, William M. Keenan, Systems, Methods, and Interfaces for Extending Legal Search Results, Thomson Reuters, Research & Development, U.S. Patent Number 9,367,604, June 14, 2016.

  10. Jack G. Conrad, Joanne C. Claussen, Jie Lin, Information Retrieval Systems with Duplicate Document Detection and Presentation Functions, Thomson Reuters, Research & Development, U.S. Patent Number 7,809,695, October 5, 2010.

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Extracurricular/Athletic Activities