
Benjamin Wilson, Ph.D.
Verified Expert in Engineering
Tornado Developer
Ben is a Ph.D. mathematician and computer scientist with exceptional practical skills and extensive experience with machine learning systems. He has worked extensively with large clients in real-time bidding, recommender systems, knowledge management, and NLP (from research to implementation of the system in production).
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Vim Text Editor, Linux
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is the design and implementation of machine learning pipelines and APIs that serve millions of requests per day in production.
Work Experience
Instructor for Machine Learning in Python
DataCamp
- Designed a workshop-style course on unsupervised learning methods.
- Created the course content, including videos and exercises.
Co-Founder
Lateral GmbH
- Implemented APIs using Python/Tornado.
- Provided R&D in knowledge management using machine learning and NLP.
- Optimized machine learning pipelines.
- Evaluated statistical models.
Machine-Learning Specialist
MBR Targeting
- Created predictive modeling of prices in a real-time bidding marketplace using Python/Sklearn using data science and huge amounts of behavioral data to hunt down and block click bots.
Data Scientist | Software Developer
Tinyclues
- Analyzed client data.
- Produced predictive models.
- Provided business insight.
Experience
Lateral GmbH
https://lateral.io/MBR Targeting
https://mbr-targeting.com/Building Babylon (R&D)
http://building-babylon.net/Controlled Experiments for Word Embeddings (R&D)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02675Berlin Machine Learning Seminar (R&D)
http://berlin-machine-learning-seminar.org/Skills
Languages
Python, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, Java, PHP
Libraries/APIs
Scikit-learn, Pandas, SciPy, NumPy
Paradigms
Data Science, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Storage
PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Relational Databases, Amazon DynamoDB
Other
Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Data Engineering, Data Analysis, Data Modeling, Tornado, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Numerical Methods, GPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT)
Tools
Gensim, Vim Text Editor, Jupyter, Git
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Engine, Azure, Linux, Amazon EC2
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematics
University of Sydney/Universidade de São Paulo - Sydney/São Paulo
Honors (1st Class and University Medal) in Mathematics
University of Sydney - Sydney, Australia
Bachelor of Science (Advanced) in Computer Science and Mathematics
University of Sydney - Sydney, Australia