David B. Bracewell received his Ph.D. in Information Science and System Engineering from The University of Tokushima in 2007. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled “A Foundation for Japanese-English Cross-lingual Information Retrieval and knowledge Acquisition from News.” His Ph.D. work was the basis for the READNG (Retrieving nEws Around the WorlD for dIscovery and kNowledge mininG) project which teamed  the University of Tokushima with Falcon Corporation to create an automated news systems for the Asian region. While at the University of Tokushima, Dr. Bracewell taught courses on Information Retrieval and English for research. 

Dr. Bracewell currently is employed as a research scientist at Language Computer Corporation in Richardson, TX.  He is currently leading a team of researchers and engineers in creating advanced natural language processing and machine learning techniques for sociolinguistic analysis of discourse. In addition, he is leading Language Computer's commercial Question Answering efforts. He was previously employed as a computer scientist at General Electric Global Research in Niskayuna, NY. His research interests include natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning, and evolutionary computing.