Brian Riordan Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

Applied science and ML engineering management; hands-on generative AI R&D and production ML; generative AI strategy

Princeton, NJ, US

Main focus: Led ETS R&D on deep learning and LLMs for natural language understanding (NLU) in education.Led R&D and deployments to production (both hands-on development and project leadership): - Applications of LLMs: Early-stage R&D on efficient fine-tuning, instruction tuning and reinforcement learning, retrieval-augmented LLMs (RAG), reasoning, applying.

Princeton, NJ, US

Main foci:- Carried out deep learning R&D for edtech applications including: short answer scoring, question generation- Served as lead scientist for ETS c-rater content scoring system- Set a SOTA on the ASAP-SAS short answer scoring datasetR&D focus areas: - NLP: short answer scoring, essay scoring, information extraction, sequence labeling / token.

Woburn, MA, US

Main focus: Machine learning and NLP in diverse defense and intelligence applications. Led numerous R&D projects, carrying out both hands-on development and project leadership: - Secured more than $8 million in external research funding; served as Principal Investigator or lead algorithm developer on all projects - Clients included Defense Advanced.

Bloomington, Indiana, US

R&D focus areas: - NLP: representation learning for NLP - ML: Bayesian statistics, generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs), latent factor models (topic models)

JP

Expert-level Japanese language proficiencyJapanese-English translation and interpretation

Ph.D., Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science

B.A., Linguistics, Anthropology, East Asian Studies

M.A., Computational Linguistics

Education record