Justin O. Barber

Justin O. Barber is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pearson, specializing in automated essay scoring and deployment of machine learning models since January 2023. Justin has held various roles including Machine Learning Engineer at LivedX, where multilabel models for student credentialing were developed and biases mitigated. As a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Radiology Partners, Justin built and deployed NLP models for clinical decision support, enhancing radiologists’ report quality. Justin's academic background includes a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Denver and a Master's in Classics from the University of Colorado Boulder, complemented by extensive teaching experience in Greek and research roles in linguistics and machine translation.