Experience

Pinpoint Predictive

• United States
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President

  • Jul 2016 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area Pinpoint Predictive provides data science services that focus on the intersection of quantitative psychology and machine learning, what we refer to as the emerging field of Psychometric AI. Our mission is to empower direct-to-consumer companies with a much deeper understanding of their customers and to improve the performance of their marketing through personality-driven content personalization.



SKOUT

• Data Scientist

  • Jan 2013 - Jul 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area Worked on LTV/Churn models, spam detection/prevention, social recommendation engines, A/B testing, and automation tools, including a picture moderation service built on deep learning techniques.



Competitive Analytics Consulting

• Statistical Consultant

  • Jun 2012 - Sep 2012

  Seattle, WA Developing advanced player and team statistical metrics for groundbreaking NBA software product.



Georgia Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor

  • Jan 2008 - Aug 2012

  Atlanta, GA • Supervised and mentored student researchers at the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. levels. • Taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in the Depts. of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. • Developed new course material for an elective course in solid tissue mechanics. • Awarded $330K grant from National Science Foundation to characterize tissue mechanical properties of avian embryos during the earliest stages of development. • Served on Undergraduate Curriculum… Show more • Supervised and mentored student researchers at the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. levels. • Taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in the Depts. of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. • Developed new course material for an elective course in solid tissue mechanics. • Awarded $330K grant from National Science Foundation to characterize tissue mechanical properties of avian embryos during the earliest stages of development. • Served on Undergraduate Curriculum committee and was instrumental in constructing a new specialization area in Bioengineering for undergraduate mechanical engineering majors. • Conducted Ph.D. Qualifying Exams in Bioengineering and Applied Mathematics.Active member of over a dozen Ph.D. and M.S. thesis committees, helping students maximize their potential to be independent scientific investigators. • Member of National Science Foundation Biomechanics and Mechanobiology grant review panel.Peer reviewer for several leading academic journals, including American Journal of Physiology, Journal of Biomechanics, and Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. • Organized and chaired a special symposium titled “Engineering Perspectives on Development” for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) in Anaheim, CA. Show less



The University of Kansas Medical Center

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jan 2004 - Dec 2007

  • Developed and implemented a computer algorithm for automated tracking of fluorescent tracer particles in living biological tissues. • Designed and performed experiments to test whether cell displacements in the embryo are primarily due to cell-autonomous processes or large-scale morphogenetic tissue movements. • Published major research finding in Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and PLoS Biology. • Awarded a 2-yr postdoctoral… Show more • Developed and implemented a computer algorithm for automated tracking of fluorescent tracer particles in living biological tissues. • Designed and performed experiments to test whether cell displacements in the embryo are primarily due to cell-autonomous processes or large-scale morphogenetic tissue movements. • Published major research finding in Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and PLoS Biology. • Awarded a 2-yr postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. Show less