Applied Research in Industry:Transferring learnings from academia into real-life
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Abstract
The talk will focus on the learnings from the last 6 years of applying research at Signal AI. The talk will showcase the efforts to transform the best research from different fields in academia to build the products that solve Signal’s users problems and the underlying large-scale text analytics pipeline capable of processing millions of documents daily to power the Signal AI media monitoring and intelligence platform. The talk will focus on how to optimise the collaboration between academia and industry in order to maximise innovation and value creation. It will include technical details of the pipeline and some of its components as well as some of the practical challenges of applying research ideas in production. In addition, it will also showcase how to be a “member” of the academic community even when working in industry and the benefits of this approach.
Biography
Dr. Miguel Martínez is the Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist of Signal AI, a growing UK company that analyses millions of news articles every day in real-time in order to improve business intelligence and decision making. During the last 6 years, Miguel has led the efforts to create and maintain the Signal Research team with strong university collaborations, with the main goal of transforming the best research principles, models and algorithms from academia into real, scalable products. Research interests include news processing, information retrieval, text analysis, natural language processing and evaluation, among others. He completed his PhD from Queen Mary University in 2014. During his time at Signal AI, the company has grown from 3 to more than 150 people, and raised more than $30M. He has been awarded the Business Leader of Tomorrow award 2014 by Innovate UK and was included in the list of UK Business Innovators in 2016 by Bloomberg. Signal AI has won numerous awards, including the Fujitsu AI Innovator in the Lloyds National Business awards 2018 and the Hottest Enterprise SaaS or B2B in the Europas 2018.
