I'm a Senior Research Scientist with the Research & Development group at Thomson Reuters, working under Dr. Peter Jackson, TR's Vice President and Chief Research Scientist. My research is currently focused on sentiment analysis, document clustering and entity resolution for large public records databases.

I'm a Computer Science graduate of the University of Massachusetts--Amherst. My advisor was Dr. W. Bruce Croft, Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) within the Department of Computer Science.

• M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts--Amherst, USA, 1994.
• Visiting Instructor at the East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, CHINA, 1990-91.
• M.A. in English/Linguistics at the University of British Columbia--Vancouver, CANADA, 1990.
• Cert. in European Studies in Education at the University of Minnesota, London, ENGLAND.
• B.S., Summa Cum Laude, in Electrical Engineering at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

I'm currently working on:

• Sentiment analysis
• Document organization---object clustering and deduping---for large legal corpora
• Entity resolution and record matching in the context of very large databases.

Contact Information:

• Thomson Reuters
  Research & Development
  610 Opperman Drive
  St. Paul, Minnesota 55123 USA
  
• E-mail: jack.g.conrad AT thomsonreuters DOT com
• URL: www.conradweb.org/~jackg

Former lives:

• Kingdom of Swaziland, Ekukhanyeni High School---math and science instructor
  (Peace Corps)
• Republic of Togo, Lycée Kara---professeur de mathématiques
  (Corps de la Paix)