Edgar Meij
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdgar Meij is a seasoned AI engineering leader and researcher, currently the Senior AI Engineering Manager – AI Platforms at Bloomberg, overseeing 10+ groups and 70+ engineers and researchers delivering AI, NLP, ML, LLM, search, and data platforms across the company. He steers global AI search and discovery initiatives, leveraging the Bloomberg Knowledge Graph to enable natural-language queries over 40M+ entities. A prolific scholar in AI, information retrieval, NLP, and knowledge graphs, he has 110+ publications, 2,000+ citations, and serves on major conference program committees and the Information Retrieval Journal editorial board. He earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Amsterdam and previously held roles at Yahoo Labs, building entity-centric, web-scale IR systems. Based in London, he combines hands-on leadership with deep technical expertise in C++, Python, and Perl to turn research into scalable production systems. His work sits at the intersection of advanced AI and practical data-driven discovery, shaping how Bloomberg users ask complex questions and derive actionable insights.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Amsterdam
English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
11reputation
2kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (14)
java6
lucene6
omnifocus3
reminder1
trello1
productivity-tools1
nlp1
knowledge-graph1
semantics1
jira1
natural-language-processing1
retrieval1
graphs1
timetracking1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ejmeij/entity-linking-and-retrieval-tutorial
May 2013 - Sep 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 9 pushes in 6 years 5 months
kg-bias/kg-bias.github.io
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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