Ian Knopke: Biographical Details

Dr. Ian Knopke is a data scientist with BBC. He has worked extensively on software engineering, metadata, personalisation, audience measurement and machine learning problems across most areas of the BBC, and has written recommendation systems for iPlayer, Radio and BBC News. He is currently part of the audience engagement team in BBC News, and is also working with BBC Monitoring on content analysis, topic assignment and named entity extraction problems. Ian holds a Ph.D. in Media and Computing Science from McGill University (Montreal) and has worked in research labs in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

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