Joel Walsh
Assistant Professor - Department Of Computer Science at Occidental College
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Walsh is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Occidental College with a decade of experience spanning academia and industry. His research centers on multimodal models, knowledge graphs, and earth observation, with a focus on education and learning sciences. He recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at USC Institute for Creative Technologies, exploring dialogue-based tutoring systems, multimodal models, and computational models of conceptual change. In parallel, he serves as Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Privateer Space, developing scalable ML infrastructure and deploying self-supervised, multimodal systems across edge and cloud environments on AWS. His training includes a PhD in STEM education from UT Austin and a Masters in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, complemented by extensive experience teaching mathematics and computer science. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a rare fusion of pedagogical insight, rigorous research, and production ML experience to bridge theory and practical, impactful AI applications.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computational Science Engineering and Mathematics, Masters Computational Science Engineering and Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (20)
relation9
sentiment8
relation-extraction8
stanford-nlp7
similarity7
lda7
extraction7
natural-language-processing7
sentiment-analysis7
nlp7
turkish6
word-embeddings6
java6
named-entity-recognition6
core-nlp5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
joelawalsh01/joelawalsh01.github.io
Sep 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
joelawalsh01/CV
Aug 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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