NLP CONSULTANT IN LONDON - MPhil Cantab
Thomas Wood
I am a data scientist specialising in natural language processing (NLP).
I help organisations extract value from unstructured data, such as PDFs, transcripts, emails, or contracts.
In 2018, I founded Fast Data Science to deliver NLP consulting services.
My data science and natural language processing consulting offering
Natural language processing consulting
My main area of focus is natural language processing (NLP), and I have undertaken many projects in industries such as pharmaceuticals, healthcare, market research, or law, where unstructured text data is the norm. I studied a Masters in 2008 at Cambridge University in MPhil in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology and since then I have been working exclusively in machine learning and mostly in NLP. In 2018, I founded my consultancy Fast Data Science Ltd, focusing on NLP. I have built NLP pipelines from scratch, and worked on natural language dialogue systems, document classifiers and text based recommender systems. For these tasks I have used both traditional machine learning techniques as well as the state of the art such as neural networks or large language models (LLMs) and generative models.
Data strategy consulting and AI strategy consulting
A good data and AI strategy should be tailored to your organisation and robust against disruption. A data or AI strategy should take into account the current business needs and potential for growth, and the possibilities that AI can bring in the future. If you are starting on a new venture and know that data science and AI will form part of your business model, please contact me for an AI strategy consulting session to ensure that your data processes and data collection is on the right track.
Machine learning consulting
I offer end to end machine learning consulting and development. I will start with an on site meeting to discuss your requirements, and to brainstorm about the projects and objectives with the highest ROI for your organisation. This is followed by a data exploration phase where I establish what is achievable for your use case using AI. I begin an intensive phase of model development, testing thousands of competing models against a validation dataset, and finally we move on to model deployment.
Natural language processing expert witness and due diligence
I offer expert witness and expert advisor services for civil litigation in the field of NLP, data science and AI. I have completed the Cardiff University Bond Solon Civil Expert Certificate, and I am certified to give expert evidence in civil proceedings in England and Wales. I am certified by Microsoft as a Microsoft Azure Associate Data Scientist. I also routinely undertake due diligence engagements for private equity investors and other investors who are considering acquiring companies in the NLP and data science space. Please click here to download an example of a CPR35/PD35 compliant expert witness report in the field of machine learning.
