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Dani Traphagen
Dani Traphagen is a solution architect at GridGain Systems. She confesses that she’s fascinated by the world of distributed databases and how this technology is shifting a decent chunk of the RBDMS paradigm. Specifically,…
Samuel Berger
Fintech entrepreneur and developer as well as a data scientist working with financial mass data projects since 1989. He started in these fields in 1989 with SBIC. Used technology and massive amounts of data…
Ajay Gopal
Ajay is a DTLA resident who’s building his second FinTech Startup Data Science team as Chief Data Scientist at SelfScore. Before that, he built and grew the data science & digital marketing automation functions…
Alexandra Damsker
I am an experienced corporate and securities attorney (SEC and international law firm trained). I’ve written a practitioners’ text on trusts and taxation, coedited a securities treatise, as well as numerous articles on various…
Phillip Kim
UCLA Math graduate. Wall Street Analyst & Head of data analytics at the previous company.
Michael Alvarez
A professor of political science at Caltech, R. Michael Alvarez has extensive research and professional experience in statistics, research methodology, and data science. His research has focused on data science as applied to survey…
Hunter Owens
Hunter Owens is a Data Scientist for the City of Los Angeles. Prior to joining the City, he worked for the Center for Data Science and Public Policy, KIPP NJ and Obama for America.…
Mike Oren
Mike Oren has a Ph.D. in human-computer interaction and sociology with a BA in computer science. He currently consults with Uptake and Pogorelc.
Matthew Theisen
I’m currently a software engineer at Leaf Group working on web content and analytics. I look for ways to algorithmically understand and enhance user experiences on our content channels. This includes article recommendation, finding…