Experience

Integrity Institute

• E-Learning Providers

• Co-Founder

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  Brooklyn, New York, United States Co-Founded the institute. Lead research and product development efforts.



Democratic National Committee

• United States
• Political Organizations
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Data Scientist

  • Oct 2019 - Dec 2020

  Greater New York City Area



Facebook

• India
• Banking

• Data Scientist

  • May 2016 - Oct 2019

  Greater New York City Area I was a product analytics data scientist at Facebook. Somewhere around top 5% individual contributor, by level and performance ratings, in the analytics org. 2 years on Facebook Local Search Team. 2 years on Integrity teams, including Pages Integrity and Instagram Content Quality.



About.com

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Data Science

  • Jul 2015 - Apr 2016

  Greater New York City Area Managed and led the data science team at About.com (Now "Dot Dash"). Team had a broad background (From English to Linguistics to Machine Learning) and high educational attainment (All Masters and PhD). I developed a team of experts in systems that required a combination of machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and statistics. We also provided data science support to other companies in the IAC family, like Investopedia.com and Ask.com. We built everything that… Show more Managed and led the data science team at About.com (Now "Dot Dash"). Team had a broad background (From English to Linguistics to Machine Learning) and high educational attainment (All Masters and PhD). I developed a team of experts in systems that required a combination of machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and statistics. We also provided data science support to other companies in the IAC family, like Investopedia.com and Ask.com. We built everything that required math. Developed the internal search engine, the recommendation engine for all recirculation units, and content quality measurement systems. We mostly worked in Python and Flask+Bootstrap for internal tools, Solr and Mongo when things needed to go into production, and C++ when things needed to be fast. We also supported the sales team, building tools and doing analyses to help them close deals. Got a lot of experience working in the popular Python libraries like NLTK, Sklearn, Pandas, and Flask.

• Senior Data Scientist

  • Jun 2014 - Jul 2015

  Greater New York City Area

• Contract Data Scientist

  • Mar 2014 - Jun 2014

  Greater New York City Area



New York University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jun 2011 - Feb 2014

  Greater New York City Area Worked as a postdoc for the Pierre Auger Observatory, an ultra-high energy cosmic ray observatory based in Argentina. I worked on measuring the composition of cosmic rays (What are they?) and the muonic content in cosmic ray air showers, which is sensitive to properties of the particle interactions (How do cosmic rays interact in the atmosphere?). I developed a combined model of the composition and particle physics to explain a wide variety of observables (Quantities you can measure) measured… Show more Worked as a postdoc for the Pierre Auger Observatory, an ultra-high energy cosmic ray observatory based in Argentina. I worked on measuring the composition of cosmic rays (What are they?) and the muonic content in cosmic ray air showers, which is sensitive to properties of the particle interactions (How do cosmic rays interact in the atmosphere?). I developed a combined model of the composition and particle physics to explain a wide variety of observables (Quantities you can measure) measured at the Auger Observatory. ● Composition of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays • Quantified the constraining power of popular observables upon models of the composition and particle interaction properties • Developed novel, highly-constraining observables of the composition • Developed a theoretical model of composition and particle interactions capable of fitting the data of the Auger Observatory • Wrote analysis software in C++, ROOT, and Python and simulation software in FORTRAN ● Muon Content in Ultra-High Energy Air Showers • Setup and ran multi-month numerical simulation campaigns on High Performance Computing clusters • Quantified discrepancies seen between observed air showers and predictions • Used data collected by the Auger Observatory to measure the muon content of air showers • Wrote analysis, simulation, and HPC campaign management software in C++, ROOT, Python, Perl, and FORTRAN

• Doctoral Candidate

  • Aug 2005 - Jun 2011

  Greater New York City Area Studied astroparticle physics for the Pierre Auger Observatory. ● Particle Physics in Ultra-High Energy Air Showers • Developed a novel method for measuring the muon content of ultra-high energy air showers • Worked on developing numerical simulations of ultra-high energy air showers using FORTRAN • Tested the sensitivity of the muon content to properties of particle interactions • Collaborated on the Auger Offline software framework using C++, ROOT, and Boost ●… Show more Studied astroparticle physics for the Pierre Auger Observatory. ● Particle Physics in Ultra-High Energy Air Showers • Developed a novel method for measuring the muon content of ultra-high energy air showers • Worked on developing numerical simulations of ultra-high energy air showers using FORTRAN • Tested the sensitivity of the muon content to properties of particle interactions • Collaborated on the Auger Offline software framework using C++, ROOT, and Boost ● Composition of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays • Used High Performance Computing clusters to generate large libraries of simulated air showers • Tested the statistical constraining power of composition sensitive observables ● New York Schools Cosmic Particle Telescope • Designed and built the data acquisition system for the prototype NYSCPT detector • Wrote operational and analysis software using C++ and Qt • Managed students in the operation of the prototype detector



Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2005 - Aug 2005

  Berkeley, California Worked on the construction of the ATLAS experiment, now operating at the Large Hadron Collider. • Operated electronic testing station for vertex tracking chips • Assembled and wrote operational software for additional testing stations using C++ and Visual Studio • Wrote control software for autoprobe microscope • Assembled a high-energy particle detector for a laser experiment from left over equipment from the Tevatron collider • Wrote control software for CAMAC modules •… Show more Worked on the construction of the ATLAS experiment, now operating at the Large Hadron Collider. • Operated electronic testing station for vertex tracking chips • Assembled and wrote operational software for additional testing stations using C++ and Visual Studio • Wrote control software for autoprobe microscope • Assembled a high-energy particle detector for a laser experiment from left over equipment from the Tevatron collider • Wrote control software for CAMAC modules • Wrote operational software for the detector in LabView and Visual Studio Show less