Experienced software engineer familiar with natural language processing, machine learning, and information retrieval. Direct experience with information extraction, relevance ranking, search engine query log analysis, text summarization, text classification, clustering, language identification, dialogue systems, natural language generation, and multimedia presentation systems. Specialties: Create high performance hybrid NLP systems that combines both machine learning and symbolic approaches. Expert programmer in Java, C/C++, Python, Perl, and Lisp. Familiar with Hadoop and Mongo DB.

Data Engineer @ Apply machine learning and natural language processing to extract insights from usage data in order to improve the relevance of Oscar's search results. From April 2015 to Present (9 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Software Engineer @ Improve relevance of search results by incorporating information from usage log. From February 2014 to April 2015 (1 year 3 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Software Engineer, Search @ Improve relevance of search results based on understanding users' queries, normalizing semi-structure data, and incorporating information from usage log analysis. From 2012 to January 2014 (2 years) Greater New York City AreaSenior Member Research Staff @ Medical informatics. Applying search technologies to medical records. From July 2010 to March 2012 (1 year 9 months) Senior Software Engineer @ From October 2008 to July 2010 (1 year 10 months) Research Scientist @ From July 2007 to September 2008 (1 year 3 months) Senior Software Engineer @ From 2006 to 2007 (1 year) Senior Software Engineer @ From March 2003 to March 2006 (3 years 1 month) Member of Technical Staff @ From November 2000 to March 2003 (2 years 5 months)

Ph.D., Computer Science @ Columbia University in the City of New York From 1987 to 2000 Country Day School From 1982 to 1987 James Shaw is skilled in: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Text Classification, Lisp, Text Mining, Information Extraction, Text Analytics, Hadoop, MapReduce, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Algorithms, Python, Search