Evan Wyse, Scientist

Evan Wyse

Scientist

MaxPoint

Location
United States
Education
Bachelor's degree, Economics
Experience
9 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 2 Months

Scientist at MaxPoint
  • United States
  • My current job since March 2015

Created a system to assign 100MM+ users to 140MM house-level locations using 20 billion points of data/day
Used PID loops and neural networks to optimally set bidding system parameters using a non-linear control system
Utilized Hidden Markov Models to develop a fault detection system to provide analyst alerting on problematic line items
Created three UIs to allow for internal deployment of data science solutions to staff who lack technical skills

Data Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory February 2013-February 2015
Developed algorithms to geolocate social media records based on natural language processing and graph techniques
Extracted insights from large relational datasets; creates pipelines for enhancing data by combining information from multiple non-relational datasets using probabilistic techniques
Managed web scraping, HTML parsing to gather large datasets (10M+ records) on topics of client interest and builds pipelines to move data to front-end visualization systems
Received two Outstanding Performance Awards for contribution to national security mission

Research Associate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • September 2011 to January 2011

Provided fast turnaround threat analyses to clients in a high-pressure environment
Analyzed dual-use industries in specific countries for NNSA’s International Nonproliferation Export Control program
Organized capacity building exercises with foreign government officials on export controls and nuclear safeguards

Education

Bachelor's degree, Economics
  • at University of Washington
  • June 2011
Bachelor's degree, International Studies
  • at University of Washington
  • June 2011

Specialties & Skills

Web Scraping
Data Mining
Digital Marketing
Databases
Machine Learning
ACADEMIC
ANALYSIS
CLUSTERING
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DATA MINING
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
NETWORKING

Languages

Arabic
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