Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto specializing in Artificial Intelligence.
Leadership Experience: Created Data Science roadmap for a multi-million dollar analytics platform. Wrote job descriptions, conducted interviews, and selected data science personnel.
Presentation Experience: Presented papers at scientific conferences, proposals to clients and corporate status updates; lectured at the University of Waterloo Department of Computer Science.
Project Management Experience: Evaluating technical proposals, defining project scope, defining deliverables and milestones, and estimating workforce requirements.
Expert Knowledge: Machine Learning algorithms including Bayesian classifiers, decision trees, random forests, support vector machines, linear regression, k-means clustering, natural language processing, data structures, backtracking search, local search, genetic algorithms, planning and scheduling, and constraint programming.
Data technologies: Hadoop, Hive, BigSQL, MongoDB, Hortonworks
Programming Experience: Python, R, Spark, C++, Java, CPLEX
Publication Record: 11 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications. 