DR. PETER VIECHNICKI

DIRECTOR

STIEFF SILVER ANNEX 400

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Dr. Peter Viechnicki is a pioneer in the development of capabilities and the management of personnel in the areas of natural language processing, machine learning, and data science techniques. Dr. Viechnicki began his career in the Federal Government, where he helped government agencies solve some of their hardest human language technology problems. During his stint in the private sector, Dr. Viechnicki built NLP systems and managed the efforts of the research teams and system integration. Some of his notable projects include applying text classification to 1.5 billion emails to enable highly efficient response to information requests and developing a multilingual fuzzy biographic search tool for decision support. Dr. Viechnicki has received numerous citations during his career, including the Distinguished Civilian Service Award. Peter received his doctorate in Linguistics from the University of Chicago, specializing in Phonetics and Phonology under Howard Nusbaum, Karen Landahl, and Ken De Jong. His dissertation demonstrated a new experimental paradigm for measuring flexibility during vowel production.