Adam Liter Email & Phone Number

College Park, Maryland, United States

• Conducted and published research in theoretical and experimental linguistics.• Instructor of record for an advanced undergraduate seminar on fundamental theoretical and methodological considerations for studying the human language capacity. Teaching assistant for introductory and advanced undergraduate classes.

• Designed and coded company-internal Python package that uses NLP feature-engineering techniques on large amounts of company's unstructured historical text data (≈600,000 articles) to produce features for use in downstream machine learning models aimed at improving member success outcomes.• Reviewed and evaluated AWS SageMaker Feature Store product for housing the features I engineered; recommended best practices for organizing company data based on this evaluation.• Implemented an automated pipeline for calculating engineered features as new company articles are published by working with the DevOps team, using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECR, and AWS Lambda.

College Park, Maryland, United States

• Led initiative to design and create an automated data analysis pipeline for a 15-experiment aptitude battery assessment in R that pulls data from internal web server, cleans it, scores it, and calculates descriptive statistics.• Developed metrics on the basis of a word2vec vector space model of a rolling monthly Twitter corpus (≈82 million tweets per month) and coded them in Python in order to identify novel and emerging drug terms.• Built web app with Flask (Python) to provide access to internal language database with info on 100s of languages.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Linguistics

Master Of Arts - Ma, Linguistics

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Linguistics

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Philosophy