Kathleen Preddy

Kathleen Preddy is a Senior Data Scientist and Innovations Lead at HireVue, where responsibilities include leading natural language processing (NLP) research and development for a recruitment AI conversational system. Preddy has a solid background in NLP, previously serving as an NLP Applied Scientist at AllyO, focusing on the design and implementation of AI dialogue systems, user intent classification, and question-answering systems. Prior experience includes a role as a Linguistic Engineer at NTENT, where contributions were made to semantic search NLP projects, and as a Research Assistant at the San Diego State Research Foundation, working on sentiment analysis software. Kathleen Preddy holds a Master of Science in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from San Diego State University.