Kenton White
Adjunct Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Ottawa
Canada
Biography
Dr. Kenton has built a career at the intersection between the Physical & the Social Sciences. His training is in Physics and Applied Mathematics, and for the first few years of his career he built a strong reputation in the Quantum Electronics research field. In 2006 he left that comfortable area of study to apply the rigorous techniques he learned as a Physicist to problems in the Social Sciences -- problems that have always fascinated him. He has built two successful companies – Distil Interactive, which assessed how people learn (sold to Canadian Standards Association in 2009) and Girih, which provides anonymized market research from Social Media. His current research interests are Graph Sampling, Text Mining, and Forecasting with Social Data. He is fortunate that his business success allows him to continue research as an Adjunct Professor and lend his industrial expertise to academic projects.
Research Interest
Dr. Kenton's current research interests are Graph Sampling, Text Mining, and Forecasting with Social Data.
