About aaron
NLP Engineer with 4+ years of experience building production clinical NLP systems in healthcare. I specialize in LLM fine-tuning and alignment (GRPO/RLHF), medical concept extraction, ontology and knowledge graph construction, and inference optimization for automation pipelines. My background bridges computer science (MS, NC State) and biology (BS, UNC Asheville), which gives me a deep appreciation for the messiness of real-world medical language and the precision required to reason over it. I've spent my career turning unstructured clinical text into structured, actionable decisions at scale. I'm driven by the belief that the most impactful applications of AI are the ones that directly reduce human suffering, whether that's streamlining healthcare access, accelerating drug discovery, or making sense of complex biological systems. I'm always interested in connecting with others working at that intersection.
Key Skills
Experience
Natural Language Processing Engineer
CurrentAvaility
* Designed, trained, and deployed an LLM-based system for generating structured clinical logic, achieving an estimated 40% reduction in clinician workload * Worked with clinicians and language models to build an ontology with over 4,500 concepts and 25,000 relationships, serving as the primary data source for our clinical natural language processing system
Graduate Researcher - Natural Language Processing
North Carolina State University
* Natural Language Understanding with the PICTure Lab: * Adapting HISyn, a natural language programming synthesizer, * to the scikit-learn ML domain, its largest domain yet * Contributed to development of extended Backus-Naur * grammar to represent object-oriented languages * Rebuilt semantic mapping to use importance criteria (TF-IDF) * Narrative Analytics with the POEM Lab: * Web-scraped fictional character personality data, used * hierarchical clustering to identify classes of character * personality * Developed NLP pipeline for analyzing fictional characters in * novels and short stories, representing emotional character arcs * with entity, sentiment, and semantic analysis * Built knowledge representations of 3 character arcs in Prolog
Software Engineering Intern
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* Contributed significant code changes to 19 production builds * Engineered several modifications to web application, including improvements to load time, search parameter expansion, and updating or removing non-compliant credit card pages * Performed daily metrics and troubleshooting with MySQL and Apache Solr, identified and corrected several significant bugs * Earned “Work-Laugh Balance” core value award for writing and repeatedly performing the company theme song
Education
North Carolina State University
Master Of Science
North Carolina State University
Master Of Science
University Of North Carolina Asheville
Bachelors
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aaron is based in raleigh, north carolina, united states.
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aaron has 13+ years of professional experience.
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