Founder and Principle: James G. Shanahan Ph.D.
Briefly, his appointments include:
Independent Consulting, San Francisco, 8/2007 to present:
- Helping clients leverage Web (text/transactional) data to build models/systems using statistical machine learning
- Architecting and engineering scalable and reliable systems requiring specialized knowledge of information retrieval (Web search), machine learning, data-mining, text-mining, recommender systems, and web metrics
- Customers include SearchMe.com, SkyGrid.com, Locutus Recycling, Silicon Prairie Partners
- Languages include Perl, Java, R/S-Plus, SQL, OLAP
- Expert Witness
- Chief Scientist, Turn Inc., June 2005-August 2007;
- Series C venture funded startup ($26 Million).
- Member of executive team; Technical and scientific leader, focusing on the development and deployment of an online ad targeting system (CPA-based) in a principled and measured way that leverages advanced statistical and machine learning techniques
- Principal Research Scientist, Clairvoyance Corp, Pittsburgh, 4 years
- Research Scientist, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France, 2.5 years
- Visiting Research Fellow, University of Bristol, U.K, 3.5 years
- Senior Researcher, Japanese Fuzzy Engineering Research Lab, LIFE, Japan, 1.5 years
- A.I. Software Engineer, Mitsubishi, Tokyo, Japan, 4 years
His technical achievements include:
- Over twenty years experience in the fields of machine learning and information access in startup, corporate and academic settings
- Published five books, and forty three refereed papers in machine learning and information systems
- Fourteen US patent filings (nine granted so far)
- General Chair ACM CIKM 2008; Organization of numerous workshops and conferences in intelligent information systems
- Teaching machine learning and information retrieval theory at university level (e.g., Rutgers University, Syracuse University, University of California Santa Cruz) and at international conferences (e.g., ACM CIKM, WWW, SIGIR).
Contact Information
james.shanahan _at_ gmail.com