Dr Tim Willis Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, GB

Edinburgh

Founded company to commercialise my revolutionary advanced word prediction algorithm, with an initial grant from the Edinburgh-Stanford Link programme, as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence. Raised funding and awareness, designed and project managed development, and reached market in Summer 2011 with our Android app, the only fully flexible abbreviation.

I have proofread a number of Informatics MSc and PhD theses, and conference papers. My background in corpus linguistics, and experience writing and editing my own PhD, enable me to spot and fix errors, as well as suggest clearer ways of expressing very complex ideas.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Nautilus Beam Ltd is our wearable tech startup, launched with support from Dundee University and Design In Action, and also subsequently Edinburgh University. Our first product is Tusi ( @tusiapp ), intelligent, intuitive text input on your smartwatch. We have a unique, novel way to type quickly and easily, avoiding the issues of speech (privacy.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Through our company Nautilus Beam Ltd., I am commercialising @Tusiapp, an app for typing on smartwatches (estimated to be a roughly $18bn industry by 2020) using a unique user interface and our world-leading Flexpansion word prediction and abbreviation expansion technology. 50bn WhatsApp and 20bn+ SMS messages are sent daily, and with our app you can reply.

Edinburgh

Mentored another NESTA startup

I tutored in Linguistics (1st and 2nd year undergrad) and Introduction to Human Communication (all years).

Milnthorpe, Nr Kendal, Cumbria

Selling web design, hosting and email services in the North-West of England. This involved educating an early market as to the benefits. I also taught people how to use email, browsers etc.

Fylde College, Lancaster University

Helped run and keep discipline in a college of several hundred students.

Ucrel, University Centre For Computer Corpus Research On English Language

Worked on the creation of a corpus of English, annotated with a very complex system showing syntactic and semantic structure - still the most detailed one I have ever heard of. The project was commissioned by ATR, Japan's largest research institute, for use in machine translation.

Computer Science

Short-contract project adding a new annotation scheme to a corpus. Presented a paper on this at a conference in Toronto (see publications, 1995).

Leeds

Training, promotion and consultancy, encouraging and supporting young student entrepreneurs to start their own businesses.

Leeds

Organised two full scale open days (14,000 visitors), and represented the University at events nationwide (short-term contract, limited funding).

Leeds

Dealt with merchandise and correspondence for a successful Leeds band (still having hits and performing at festivals now:-)

Administration & hands-on work on voluntary projects with elderly people, children, and people with disabilities.

Linguistics & Phonetics, Leeds University

The only full-time RA on a team building the SUSANNE Corpus - Surface and Underlying Structural Analysis of Naturalistic English. We annotated 128,000 words of English by part-of-speech, and detailed syntactic structure. Amongst my duties, I was responsible for adding a Case Structural analysis of the entire corpus, including helping formulate its.

Phd, Informatics, Specialising In Computational Linguistics

Activities and Societies: EU Canoe Club, Conservation Volunteers (under a different name :-), Snowsports Club Typing can be slow &.

Msc, Cognitive Science & Natural Language

Ba, Linguistics & Phonetics

O & A Levels, English, French, German