Ian FitzPatrick is a freelance senior data scientist focused on language processing (NLP/voice) and experienced in designing and implementing AI systems. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Leiden (Netherlands) specialising in Neuropsychology before reading Cognitive Neuroscience at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands), during which time he co-founded the student journal Nijmegen CNS. He did his Master’s research project on bilingual speech recognition at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Indefrey, graduating in September 2006. From October 2006 to December 2009, FitzPatrick conducted his PhD research on spoken word recognition in non-native sentence contexts at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Donders Institute, culminating in a PhD thesis entitled: “Lexical interactions in non-native speech comprehension: Evidence from electro-encephalography, eye-tracking, and functional magnetic resonance imaging”, which he publicly defended on March 16th, 2011 at the Radboud University Nijmegen. From January 2010 to June 2011 FitzPatrick worked as a Postdoc at the Department of Technology and Information of the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. From July 2011 to July 2016 FitzPatrick worked as a Post-doctoral researcher at the Institut für Sprache und Information at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf (Germany) in collaboration with the Donders Institute. Between July 2016 and April 2019 FitzPatrick worked as a Senior Data Scientist at VIQTOR DAVIS (formerly Jibes Data Analytics).
PhD in Neurolinguistics, 2011
Radboud University Nijmegen
MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2006
Radboud University Nijmegen
BSc in Psychology, 2006
Leiden University
At Jibes I have been involved in the design and development of non-linear (non-scripted) chatbots for large corporate clients.