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ROBINSON OJWANG

@robinsonojwang

Generative AI & NLP specialist blending computation and creativity.

United States
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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles applying generative AI and evaluation expertise to ship safe, high-quality, multilingual LLM features, lead annotation teams, and drive metrics-based product improvements in collaborative, research-forward environments.

I am a Generative AI and NLP specialist with 11+ years of end-to-end experience in language data operations, model evaluation, prompt engineering, and human–AI narrative collaboration. I combine computational linguistics, creative writing, and digital humanities to design cognitive-aware evaluation frameworks, build multilingual datasets, and ship production LLM features that balance quality, safety, and creativity.

I have led large-scale annotation and preference-ranking programs, created rubric- and pairwise-based evaluation harnesses, and delivered production features across consumer and enterprise products. My work has improved editorial acceptance, reduced rewrite time, and lowered policy violations while expanding multilingual capabilities and rigorous rater calibration.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Undergraduate Researcher

Northwestern University

Jan 2014 - Jan 2016 (2 years)

Implemented discourse parsers and dashboards for newsroom editors to detect bias and assess content quality as part of computational journalism projects.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

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University of Southern California

Doctor of Philosophy, Creative Writing & Literature (AI and Literary Cognition)

2021 - 2024

Activities and societies: Dissertation research; development of evaluation harnesses; workshops and collaborations with Adobe on narrative metrics.

PhD program in Creative Writing & Literature focused on AI and literary cognition, including a dissertation on cognitive models for AI-generated narrative and development of evaluation frameworks for narrative quality.

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Georgetown University

Master of Arts, Linguistics (Computational Linguistics)

2017 - 2020

Activities and societies: Graduate research, annotation workshops, corpus construction, and teaching annotation/rater calibration.

Master of Arts in Linguistics with a Computational Linguistics focus and a Certificate in Digital Humanities; thesis on measuring factuality and coherence in generative dialogue systems and work on multilingual corpora and annotation schemata.

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Northwestern University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Communication Studies

2012 - 2016

Activities and societies: KnightLab research assistant, speech & debate, outreach in digital literacy.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Communication Studies with concentrations in linguistics, logic and symbolic reasoning, and NLP fundamentals; capstone on media bias detection via discourse parsing.

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