Bryan Thompson Email and Phone Number

Mr. Bryan B. Thompson is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services. He was the co-founder and Chief Scientist of Blazegraph. His technical background includes expertise in cloud computing; semantic web; web architecture; relational, object, and graph database architectures; knowledge management and collaboration; AI & machine learning; NLP; metrics, scalability studies, benchmarks and performance tuning; decision support systems; and usability design. Significant developments include: * Amazon Bedrock GraphRAG using Amazon Neptune. I drove a cross-organization team to develop and deliver a capability for GraphRAG to Amazon Bedrock customers. We have also launched an open source tool kit for customers who want to build customized GraphRAG applications.* Amazon Neptune Analytics: A high performance graph database for graph analytics on live data. Neptune Analytics is a memory first hybrid columnar database using fast MVCC and highly tuned graph specific data structures. It balances the capabilities of a high performance database with techniques from high performance computing.* Amazon Neptune Database: The world's first managed graph database for OLTP workloads.• Mapgraph: an open source distributed platform for parallel graph algorithms on GPUs and GPU clusters with performance 10-100x faster than CPU systems and up to 32 GTEPS on a 64-GPU cluster.• Blazegraph®: a high performance open source RDF/graph database widely used within in the intelligence community, telecommunications industry, managed storage networks, heath care, bioinformatics, etc.;• The synthesis of a cognitive model of human reasoning about risk and uncertainty (“Recognition / Metacognition theory”: Cohen, Freeman & Thompson, 1998) with a connectionist model of human reflexive inference (“Shruti”: Shastri & Ajjanagadde 1993; Shastri, 1996) that provides a cognitive and computational explanation and model of expertise and critical thinking behaviors.