SEEKING WORK -- Freelance/Remote/Travel/Local

PhD in Information Retrieval graduate (9/2011, UK), 3yrs industry experience (IBM lab, and HP Consulting division)

Programming Languages: Java, C#, Python, Ruby, R, Perl, C

Research IR: Search Engines(MG4J, Lemur, Terrier), Evaluation procedures (TREC-style)

Research NLP: Semantic Vector Space models (LSA, HAL, COALS, PMI)

General Proficiency: Large scale text and document processing techniques (stop-wording, stemming, indexing, nosql (tokyo, kyoto cabinet))

Happy to answer any questions for more specific details and provide my CV and references on request.

get.erik{at}gmail.com