I'm a Lead Research Scientist in the Catalyst Lab at Thomson Reuters Global Resources (TRGR) in Baar, Switzerland, working under Dr. Peter Pircher. The Catalyst Lab focuses on innovation, collaboration and the leveraging of corporate technology resources, in addition to performing a number of research functions for the company.

Prior to this I worked with Corporate Research & Development at Thomson Reuters, under Dr. Peter Jackson, Thomson Reuters' Vice President and Chief Research Scientist and Dr. Khalid Al-Kofahi, Thomson Reuters' Vice President of Research. My most recent research focused on question answering, document clustering and e-discovery.

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've recently worked on:

• Language Modeling for domain-specific documents
• Quant Analytics

In the past, I've also investigated:

• Question Answering
• Document organization---object clustering and deduping---for large legal corpora
• E-Discovery
• Sentiment Analysis
• Entity resolution and record matching in the context of very large databases.
• New search paradigms for highly structured data.

Commercialized past projects:

• WestlawNext
• PeopleMap
• KeyCite

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

News on Summer 2012 "Switzerland for Swaziland" ride through 6 European countries in 6 days (800km) to raise funds for the Young Heroes organization that assists AIDS orphans in Swaziland.

• Switzerland for Swaziland Ride
• Wins 2012 Thomson Reuters Community Champion Award

News on Thomson Reuters' support for the Books for Africa Program and the Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative:

• Books for Africa and the Rule of Law Collaboration