Dominic Widdows

Dominic Widdows has extensive work experience in the field of technology and language engineering. Dominic currently holds the position of Senior Principal Scientist at IonQ, starting in November 2021. Prior to that, they worked at LivePerson as a Senior Principal NLP Scientist from June 2020 to November 2021, where they focused on Conversational AI and Natural Language Understanding. Dominic also led the internationalization effort to extend NLU systems to support multiple languages.

Before joining LivePerson, Dominic had a significant tenure at Grab, starting in January 2016. Dominic held various roles, including Head of Ads Data Science, Head of Engineering for Data Enrichment, Engineering Lead, and Software Engineer. During their time at Grab, they contributed to data science and engineering projects, with a particular focus on advertising and data enrichment.

From 2014 to 2015, Dominic worked at Microsoft as a Senior Software Engineer. Dominic then briefly served as the Director of Language Engineering at Serendipity in 2013. Prior to that, they held the role of Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Bing from 2012 to 2013.

Dominic's career began at Google in 2007, where they worked as a Software Engineer until 2011. Before joining Google, they worked as a Senior Research Engineer at MAYA Design from 2004 to 2007 and at Stanford University from 2001 to 2004.

Overall, Dominic Widdows has a diverse background in software engineering, language engineering, data science, and artificial intelligence across multiple companies and organizations.

Dominic Widdows completed their Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Mathematics at Durham University from 1993 to 1996. Dominic then pursued their Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in Differential Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1996 to 2000.