Billy Dickson

Billy Dickson has held a variety of positions in the past few years. In 2021, they were Co-founder and CTO of Semiring Inc., a company that uses data science, knowledge graph, and NLP technologies to turn hidden business data into actionable information and knowledge. Billy was also a Student Moderator and Editor of Publications: Books & Reviews for The LINGUIST List and a Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division Department of Defense Contractor for NSIN - National Security Innovation Network. In 2020, they were a Cognitive Science/ Artificial Intelligence Lab and Natural Language Processing Lab at Indiana University Bloomington. In 2018, they were a Special Events Security for the Michigan State University Police Department.

Billy Dickson is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Indiana University Bloomington, which they began in 2022. Prior to this, they earned a Master of Science in Computational Linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington. Billy also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from Michigan State University, with minors in Chinese and Teaching English. Additionally, they have a Language Certificate in Chinese from Harbin Institute of Technology. Billy has also obtained certifications in Agile Project Management from Coursera in August 2022, Containerized Applications on AWS from Coursera in July 2022, and Biomedical Researcher from CITI Program in June 2022.