Julian Brooke

Julian Brooke has a diverse work experience in the field of machine learning and natural language processing. Julian is currently working as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Boosted.ai since April 2021. Prior to this, they served as an Assistant Professor of Teaching at The University of British Columbia from July 2018 to June 2021, where they were responsible for curriculum development and teaching various courses related to data science and computational linguistics.

Before joining The University of British Columbia, Julian worked as a Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters from October 2017 to June 2018. Julian also served as a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne from September 2015 to September 2017, where they conducted research on various topics including multilingual lexicon creation, social media analysis, and natural language processing.

Additionally, Julian worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto/Quillsoft from January 2014 to August 2015 and as an NLP Research Engineer at Maluuba in April 2012. Julian also gained experience as a Research Programmer at Quillsoft Ltd. from June 2011 to August 2012.

Furthermore, Julian has a background in translation and English language instruction. Julian worked as a Translator from September 2004 to August 2007 and as an English Second Language Instructor from September 2001 to June 2005, primarily in China.

Overall, Julian Brooke has a strong background in machine learning, natural language processing, and data science, with experience in academia and industry.

Julian Brooke completed a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University from 1997 to 2001. Following this, they pursued a Master's of Arts degree in Linguistics at Simon Fraser University between 2007 and 2009. Lastly, they obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, studying from 2009 to 2013.