Principal Data Scientist and Personalisation Lead @ From May 2015 to Present (8 months) London, United KingdomLead Data Scientist @ - Designed machine learning architecture for large-scale
Principal Data Scientist and Personalisation Lead @ From May 2015 to Present (8 months) London, United KingdomLead Data Scientist @ - Designed machine learning architecture for large-scale recommender system.
- Built automated data pipeline to process >50Tb data daily using Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Mahout on Windows Azure.
- Designed and implemented low latency, real-time compute engine.
- Recruited and led team of engineers and Data Scientists to develop latest machine learning and algorithmic techniques to improve personalization on ASOS.com.
- Directed feature engineering and development of strategic roadmap for personalisation across a cross functional team.
Technologies used:
1) Distributed storage and computation
- Hadoop
- Windows Azure / hdInsight
- Apache Mahout
- Elasticsearch
2) Data querying and manipulation*
- Hive / SQL
- Pig
3) Automation and scheduling
- Azure Data Factory
- Apache Oozie
- Jenkins
4) Model development and ad-hoc analysis
- R, Python
- C++, Java From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) London, United KingdomStatistics DPhil researcher @ Developed a novel machine learning method using Hidden Markov Models to estimate rate of HIV evolution, with extension to handle genomic longitudinal data. From September 2007 to Present (8 years 4 months) Senior Quantitative Analyst, EAN @ From July 2012 to December 2012 (6 months) London, United KingdomStatistics tutor @ From January 2011 to March 2012 (1 year 3 months) Junior Dean @ From September 2008 to August 2011 (3 years) Statistical Computing tutor @ Assist with teaching the following R practicals: basic graphics, hypothesis testing, linear models, generalised linear models, time series, multivariate analysis, multi-level models, data mining, machine learning, imputation and bayesian analysis. From September 2010 to April 2011 (8 months) Data Technician @ From January 2007 to November 2007 (11 months) Soldier: Trainee Combat and Electronic Engineer @ From February 2001 to June 2002 (1 year 5 months) Data Technician @ From August 2000 to February 2001 (7 months)
DPhil, Statistics @ Pembroke College, Oxford From 2008 to 2012 Statistics @ Mansfield College, Oxford From 2006 to 2008 BSc, Biology with Business Management @ Queen Mary, U. of London From 2003 to 2006 Jedidiah Francis is skilled in: Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, R, Data Mining, Statistics, Algorithms, Data Analysis, Research, Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Mathematical Modeling, Bayesian statistics, Multivariate Analysis, C++
Websites:
http://www.jedifran.com
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