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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.


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:


Contact Information:

  • Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Catalyst Lab
    Neuhofstrasse 1
    Baar, CH-6340
    Switzerland
  • E-mail: jack.g.conrad AT thomsonreuters DOT com


Former lives:

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.

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




Last updated: Fri Mar 16 23:08:49 CET 2013