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People / PhD candidates

Connor MacLean

PhD candidate

PhD thesis funded byEDF
Connor MacLean

Research domains

  • NLP / information extraction (NER)
  • Topic modelling
  • Startups & innovative companies
  • Renewable-energy technology watch
  • Transdisciplinarity & TRIZ

Connor MacLean works on natural language processing to identify innovative companies and emerging technologies. His publications cover named-entity recognition on French texts to detect new technologies, technological domains and startup names in renewable energy, information extraction for technology trends, and the measurement of transdisciplinarity in startups using TRIZ principles. His thesis work underpins HiveScan, the Chair’s tool that maps the innovative companies of a field.

Publications