Christian Monson

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ABOUT ME

Machine Learning Scientist with 8+ years experience

For 9 years (2009-2018) I worked in industry as a Machine Learning Scientist specializing in Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition. The last 5 of those years I was at Amazon improving the Alexa personal assistant. During the 2000’s I was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and a postdoc at Oregon Health & Science University working in Natural Language Processing. For my Ph.D. thesis I designed a machine learning algorithm that automatically learns the morphological structure of words in any language. I completed my Bachelor’s in Computer Science, with minors in Math and Physics, from Brigham Young University in 2000. Currently, I am building a physics-based 3D video game for mobile devices (using Unity and C#). In video games, I get to use math, physics, and programming all in a creative setting!

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Joined October 2019

EXPERTISE

Machine Learning

10 years experience | 1 endorsement

10+ years experience as a Machine Learning Scientist specializing in Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition, including 5 yea...

10+ years experience as a Machine Learning Scientist specializing in Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition, including 5 years at Amazon where I worked to improve the Alexa personal assistant. During the 2000’s I was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and a postdoc at Oregon Health & Science University working in Natural Language Processing. For my Ph.D. thesis I designed a machine learning algorithm that automatically learns the morphological structure of words in any language.

Python

8 years experience | 1 endorsement

I have 8+ years experience working in Python as a Machine Learning Scientist, including 5 years at Amazon where I was part of the team th...

I have 8+ years experience working in Python as a Machine Learning Scientist, including 5 years at Amazon where I was part of the team that built the Alexa personal assistant.

Machine Learning

C# unity

1 year experience

Using Unity, Blender, and Gimp, I have designed, built, and deployed a non-trivial 3D mobile game to the Android and iOS stores. I have f...

Using Unity, Blender, and Gimp, I have designed, built, and deployed a non-trivial 3D mobile game to the Android and iOS stores. I have first-hand knowledge of Unity's C# scripting interface, animation engine, particle systems, and audio, as well as 3D modeling in Blender, and image processing (for textures) in GIMP. I'd love to help you build your next game!

UnityUnity for game developmentBlender

UnityUnity for game developmentBlender GIMP

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EMPLOYMENTS

Machine Learning Scientist

Amazon.com

2013-07-01-2018-11-01

Improved and extended the Alexa Personal Assistant

Python

Java

C++

Python

Java

C++

Bash

Machine Learning

Senior Research Scientist

Nuance Communications

2010-11-01-2013-07-01

Built and improved language models for speech recognition, with a focus on techniques for richly inflecting languages.

Python

Bash

Machine Learning

Python

Bash

Machine Learning

Language modeling