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Deployed Computational Engineer/Data Scientist @ • Conduct analysis and solve problems with customer data • Deliver quantitative analysis based on statistical/machine learning models built from first-principles • Translate business questions into data questions—ask: what are we doing to provide value? What are the causes and what does it mean for the business? • Implement technical solutions at customer sites From July 2015 to Present (4 months) Palo Alto/New YorkResearch Assistant @ • Experienced in using machine learning techniques(random forests,neural networks, boosting, etc.) for regression and classification problems • Collaborated on large C++ projects (over 4 years of experience) • Developed a parallelized data pipeline in C++ and Python using world class HPC resources to process O(100) TB datasets • Designed, tested and implemented statistical models for setting confidence intervals and limits on new physics models for the LHC From January 2012 to Present (3 years 10 months) Fellow @ Creator of haventreddityet.com: A reddit discovery engine • Designed and deployed a novel web crawler to efficiently collect reddit.com social network data • Generated a graphical model of the reddit social network based on a user-user similarity measure • Designed a specialized random walk algorithm to generate embedded subgraphs and clusters • Used unsupervised learning and datamining techniques to identify unique subreddit categories From January 2015 to March 2015 (3 months) Palo Alto, CAATLAS Missing ET Trigger Expert/Student Researcher @ • Specialized in cleaning, mining, modelling and validation of ATLAS data • Feature engineered discriminating variables for general ATLAS data analysis • Developed and tested statistical models for background studies in ATLAS Higgs and Dark Matter data analyses • Conducted sensitivity studies for Dark Matter models at the LHC • Monitored and maintained ATLAS hardware and monitoring software • On-call monitoring expert for ATLAS data collection subsystems From January 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 5 months) CERN, Switzerland

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), High Energy Experimental Particle Physics @ University of Victoria From 2012 to 2015 Master of Science (MSc), Experimental Particle Physics @ University of Victoria From 2009 to 2011 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics @ McGill University James Pearce is skilled in: C++, Python, Data Analysis, Grid Computing, PHP, Machine Learning, Linux, LaTeX, Big Data, Monte Carlo Simulation, Statistics, Mathematica, Matlab, Physics, Mathematical Modeling, Fortran, Algorithms, ROOT, Science, Data Mining, Scientific Computing, Numerical Analysis, Pizza, Dinosaurs