Andy Hickl
Chief Technology Officer @ Allen Institute
- Role
- Chief Technology Officer at Allen Institute
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Andy Hickl
As Chief Technology Officer at the Allen Institute, I’m building the computational infrastructure that will fundamentally change how biological discoveries are made.We’re creating systems that identify hidden patterns, generate hypotheses at scale, and compress decades of research into years—making once-impossible discoveries achievable.I’ve spent three decades developing AI systems at Microsoft, Intel, and Accenture, co-founded the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and three AI startups, and directed research programs for IARPA, DARPA, and the Department of Defense. My work appears in ACL, SIGIR, and
Experience
Chief Technology Officer
Jun 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
I lead the development of cutting-edge technology platforms, AI/ML models, and data infrastructure to accelerate biological discovery. I oversee engineering efforts that supports innovative research across our scientific divisions. I’m passionate about advancing data-driven biology and supporting postdoctoral fellowships to foster the next generation of tech-savvy scientists.
Education
Rice University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics
1994 — 1998
UC San Diego
Master of Arts (MA), Linguistics
2001 — 2001
UC San Diego
PhD Candidate, Computational Linguistics
1998 — 2003
Skills
- Technical Leadership
- Project Management
- Linguistics
- Natural Language Processing
- Algorithms
- Hadoop
- Search
- Mobile Applications
- Agile Project Management
- Lucene
- Product Management
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- Scalability
- Software Engineering
- Ontologies
- Thought Leadership
- Ruby
- Information Extraction
- Text Classification
- Linked Data
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategic Partnerships
- Sentiment Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Crowdsourcing
- Mobile Devices
- Behavioral Segmentation
- Recommender Systems
- Language Technology
- Computer Science
- Mapreduce
- Strategy
- Text Mining
- Data Mining
- Cloud Computing
- Question Answering
- Search Engine Technology
- Machine Translation
- Strategic Leadership
- Agile Methodologies
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