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Russell Horton

Staff AI Researcher · GitHub Next

Selected Work
Experience

GitHub

2018 — Present

Staff AI Researcher, GitHub Next (2023 — Present) · Staff & Senior Security Analyst, Platform Health (2018 — 2023)

Inventing and prototyping large-scale agentic code generation; championing Continuous AI. Built and shipped GitHub’s ML service and models for abuse classification. GitHub Responsible AI Champion.

Verizon Labs · IPTV

2015 — 2017

Lead Data Scientist · Data Scientist

Led a team building a recommender system for TV and movies from the viewing data of millions of customers. Spark, Scala, Python.

EcoHealth Alliance

2014 — 2015

Senior Data Scientist

Led a cross-functional team on a DTRA-funded emerging-disease detection dashboard. Built Annie, a Python NLP annotation framework.

Reverb · Wordnik

2008 — Present

Board Member (2020 — Present) · Computational Linguist (2008 — 2014)

Built the entity / concept disambiguation framework at the core of the recommender system for news and web content. Scala, Python.

The University of Chicago

2004 — 2009

Programmer Analyst

Machine learning and text mining. Built Philomine, an early application for machine learning on natural-language text for humanities research.

Education

MA Linguistics

UC San Diego · 2012

AB Linguistics

University of Chicago · 2002

Honors · Phi Beta Kappa

Selected Publications
  • Deconstructing Machine Learning: A Challenge for Digital Humanities

    Cooney, Horton, Olsen, Roe, Voyer · Digital Humanities 2008

    2008 ↗
  • Something Borrowed: Sequence Alignment and the Identification of Similar Passages in Large Text Collections

    with Olsen, Roe · Digital Studies / Le Champ numérique, Vol 2 No 1

    2010
  • Plundering Philosophers: Identifying Sources of the Encyclopédie

    with Allen, Douard, Cooney, Morrissey, Olsen, Roe, Voyer · J. Assoc. for History and Computing, Vol 13 No 1

    2010
  • Vive la Différence! Text Mining Gender Difference in French Literature

    with Argamon, Goulain, Olsen · Digital Humanities Quarterly, Vol 3 No 2

    2009
  • Mining Eighteenth Century Ontologies: Machine Learning and Knowledge Classification in the Encyclopédie

    with Morrissey, Olsen, Roe, Voyer · Digital Humanities Quarterly, Vol 3 No 2

    2009
  • Automatic Media Summary Creation Systems and Methods

    with Hu, Medapati · US Patent 20150300

    2015
  • Data Mining for Free Range Definitions

    with Allen, McKean · US Patent WORD 1000-1

    2011

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