Dominic Widdows

Dominic Widdows is a research scientist, with many years of contributions to mathematics, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing, particularly as a researcher at Oxford and Stanford, and a software engineer / data scientist at Google, Microsoft, Grab, LivePerson, IonQ, and AMD. He's worked on applications including search, ontology learning, information extraction, machine translation, ridehailing and ridesharing, dialogue systems, quantum computing, and GPU acceleration.

Dominic’s biggest research area has been in building and semantic vector models and uncovering their mathematical roots shared with quantum theory, including applying models based on quantum logic and entanglement to relation extraction and reasoning. He has helped author over 70 journal and conference papers, and the book Geometry and Meaning. His contributions to creating and supporting open source projects has included Infomap NLP, SemanticVectors, SkyMap, pilmaps, and lplangid. He loves gardening and playing music.