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    Joseph Richards

    Joseph Richards

    My expertise is building production-grade machine learning applications • Founder & Head of Data Science @wiseio • PhD in Statistics from CMU

    Head Of Data Science Berkeley Carnegie Mellon Unive...
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    Experience
    Down to Cook
    Down to Cook
    Co-Founder & COO 2019 - Present (over 7 years)
    Down to Cook makes plant-based meal starter products that are nutritious, convenient, and accessible. Founded in 2019, their mission is to provide greater access to the health... more benefits of plant-based food while reducing animal product use and household food waste. Down to Cook is female-founded, minority-owned, and is a public-benefit corporation.
    Owl Be Back Consulting
    Owl Be Back Consulting
    Founder 2019 - Present (over 7 years)
    GE Digital
    GE Digital
    VP - Data & Analytics 2016 - 2019 (over 2 years)
    I ran the Wise Data Science Applications team at GE. We were the first team within GE to deploy machine learning in production into their core businesses: Aviation, Power,... more Oil & Gas, and Renewables. Our application workflows ingested large-scale sensor data (time-series and images) to augment or automate the decision-making workflows around asset health & maintenance. We deployed across 10k+ aircraft engines, 25k+ wind turbines, 2k+ gas & steam turbines, and millions of miles of O&G pipelines.
    Wise.io
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    Wise.io
    Founder, Chief Data Scientist 2012 - 2016 (over 4 years)
    At wise.io, we built a fully containerized production-grade ML system that enabled us to rapidly build and deploy scalable ML applications. Our main product was a plug-n-play... more ML application for customer support case handling, integrated with Zendesk & Salesforce Service Cloud. We supported dozens of customers and 100+ in-production models with a small technical team. Our clients included Thumbtack, Expedia, Groupon, Lyft, Gusto, and Pinterest.
    UC Berkeley
    UC Berkeley
    Postdoctoral Researcher 2010 - 2012 (over 2 years)
    In the Center for Time Domain Informatics, joint with UCB Statistics and Astronomy Departments. Developed of statistical and machine-learning methodology for real-time analysis... more of data from time-domain astronomy.

    Taught Bayesian statistics course for senior undergraduate majors.
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    Wise.io
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    UC Berkeley, GE Digital, Owl Be Back Consulting, Down to Cook
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    About
    Achievements

    Fulbright fellow (2006), NSF Postdoctoral Scholar (2010-2013), PhD in Statistics (2010), Founder of a machine learning company (exited via acquisition in 2017).

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    Skills
    Python Docker Jenkins AWS Flask Machine Learning Product Development
    Locations
    San Francisco Bay Area
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