Clifton Mcfate Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Ct

Research scientist at Elemental Cognition applying LLM and symbolic approaches to solve challenging NLU business problems.Key projects:Interactive Knowledge Discovery: Integrating RAG with formal models of causation to support knowledge-intensive multi-hop causal QA in biomedical and financial research applicationsBusiness Logic Assistant: Designing and building LLM components to assist users in authoring their business logic, extract logic from documents, and integrate with zero shot dialog capabilitiesNeuro-Symbolic Applications: Working with customers and internal users to create applications for insurance claims adjustment, business process automation, route optimization, and interior designKnowledge Capture Language: Contributing to the design and implementation of the Cogent platform’s specification language

Greater Chicago Area

I received my PhD from Northwestern University in computer science. Investigated computational cognitive models of analogical reasoning, causal reasoning, and language acquisition as a member of the Qualitative Reasoning Group, advised by Kenneth Forbus, Ph.D. I was a teaching assistant for the class: Cogsci 207, Introduction to Cognitive Modeling.

Graduate student in computational linguistics and teaching assistant for undergraduate courses on cognitive science and language acquisition.

Created the NULEX lexicon, an open-source feature-based lexicon based on WordNet and improved using VerbNet and Wiktionary.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science & Radio,Tv,Film