Ian Boardman

Ian Boardman has worked in a variety of roles in the technology industry since 2000. Ian began their career as a Senior Software Engineer at iPhrase Technologies, where they contributed to natural language understanding (NLU) and information retrieval (IR) technology development. Ian then worked as a Lead Software Developer at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where they designed, built and developed web services for patient record and radiology information management, and client-server interfaces to resident third-party hospital information systems. In 2003, they were a Research Engineer at General Dynamics AIS, where they performed studies on support vector machines (SVM) for channel robustness in narrow-band speaker recognition and cross-channel effects on speaker verification. Ian then worked as a Research and Senior Data Engineer at Nuance Communications, where they supported acoustic and language modeling research for rapid, automated transcription of voice mail. In 2008, they were a Speech Recognition Consultant at EnglishCentral, where they developed speech recognition technology for a novel on-line language learning software application. Ian then worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, where they developed an archival and analytical data pipeline based on Luigi, PostgreSQL, Python, and a map-reduce approach with distributed services. In 2010, they were a Research Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where they developed speech and language technology and provided software engineering support. In 2018, they were a Software Engineer - Graph Data at Kensho Technologies, where they performed software engineering of data loading and query servicing packages, ETL for Kensho's custom Knowledge Graph database. Most recently, they have been a Senior Research Programmer at Boston Fusion, where they have been doing software and database development, data analysis and machine learning for Government funded R&D projects.

Ian Boardman completed their PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University in 1995. Ian also holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science, and a B.A. in Biophysics and Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania's College of Arts and Sciences. Additionally, they obtained a Machine Learning certification from Coursera Course Certificates in April 2016.