Veysel is the Chief Technology Officer at John Snow Labs, improving the Spark NLP for the Healthcare library and delivering hands-on projects in Healthcare and Life Science. Holding a PhD degree in ML, Dr. Kocaman has authored more than 25 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences in the last few years, focusing on solving real world problems in healthcare with NLP.
He is a seasoned data scientist with a strong background in every aspect of data science including machine learning, artificial intelligence, and big data with over ten years of experience. Veysel has broad consulting experience in Statistics, Data Science, Software Architecture, DevOps, Machine Learning, and AI to several start-ups, boot camps, and companies around the globe.
He also speaks at Data Science & AI events, conferences and workshops, and has delivered more than a hundred talks at international as well as national conferences and meetups.
The release of Spark NLP for Healthcare 3.1 brings significant speed and accuracy improvements for the task of entity resolution, also known as entity linking: the ability to map a...