I am a Data & AI Leader with hands-on expertise solving problems with technology and building high-performing teams both in Fortune 500 and startup organizations. Deep interests in computational intelligence; matching experience in global company processes & measures. Built teams/practices/offers around M365 Copilot, Power BI, Power Platform, and ERP & MRP data.
Computational Scientist with interests in NLU, NLP, ML, and AI. Postdoc in NLP at LATL/U. Geneva, Harvard Ph.D. in Linguistics (Syntax, with Comp Ling minor), LSU BS in Computer Science.
AI for Energy Workshop Planning Committee, Rice Ken Kennedy Institute Energy HPC Conference. Mar 7, 2024.
AI and ESG - Friend or Foe. Panelist w Trish Uhl, Cynthia Mabrym and Katie Mehnert. ESG Council. Aug 17, 2023.
Power BI Metadata Reporting. Houston Power BI Users Group. Oct 20, 2022.
Rice Ken Kennedy AI & Data Science Conference 2021, Program Committee. Oct 25-26, 2021.
Reusing Power BI Dataflows in Azure Synapse. Houston Power BI Users Group. Jun 17, 2021. Part 1 - Database Setup
Rice Data Science Conference 2020, Program Committee. Oct 26-28, 2020.
Let's Talk Data: Panelist. HEDS Meetup. Houston, TX. Jan 16, 2020.
Data Science from Scratch, Ch 16-17 Logistic Regression, Decision Trees. Katy Data Analytics & Machine Learning Meetup. Katy, TX. Nov 9, 2019.
Rice Data Science Conference 2019, Program Committee. Oct 14-15, 2019.
Data Science from Scratch, Ch 14 Simple Linear Regression. Katy Data Analytics & Machine Learning Meetup. Katy, TX. Sep 21, 2019.
Global AI Night. Microsoft Technology Center, Houston, TX. Sep 5, 2019
- Session 1: Creating applications that can see, hear, speak or understand - using Microsoft Cognitive Services
- Session 2: Crash course on building and accelerating deep learning solutions
Data Science from Scratch, Ch 13 Naive Bayes. Katy Data Analytics & Machine Learning Meetup. Katy, TX. Aug 17, 2019
Data Science from Scratch, Ch 8 & 10, Gradient Descent, Working with Data. Katy Data Analytics & Machine Learning Meetup. Katy, TX. Jul 27, 2019
Data Science from Scratch, Ch 6-7 Probability, Hypothesis and Inference. Katy Data Analytics & Machine Learning Meetup. Katy, TX. Jun 15, 2019
Data Science from Scratch, Ch 1-4 Intro, Python, Visualizing Data, Linear Algebra. Katy Data Analytics & Machine Learning Meetup. Katy, TX. May 25, 2019
Chasing the Flagellum: Rare Words for Text Generation (Short Talk). Presented at BBVA (Azlo), Bosch, Discern Dx, Gyant, InQTel, Mya, and Uber in San Francisco Bay Area. Oct/Nov 2018. Chasing the Flagellum
Rice Data Science Conference 2018, Program Committee. Oct 18-19, 2019.
Introduction to NLP: Sentiment Analysis with a Language Model. Katy Machine Learning. Houston, TX. Aug 11, 2018. Talk Materials
Recurrent Neural Nets, Part I (Goodfellow, et al. 2016, Chapter 10 Sequence Modeling, Sections 10.1-10.6). Houston Machine Learning. Houston, TX. Jun 16, 2018.
From Application Servers to Server-less Lambda Functions (Lightning Talk). AIA (Association of Industry Analysts). Houston, TX. Jun 7, 2018.
Big Data/IoT/AI Ecosystem (Panel Moderator). Louisiana IT Symposium. New Orleans, LA. Nov 8, 2017.
Get a Ph.D. and Work in Industry. LSU Undergraduate Research Conference 2012: Excite, Explore, Experiment. Baton Rouge, LA. · Oct 26, 2012
Postdoc (2 Years). Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Technologie du Langage, Université de Genève. Geneva, Switzerland.
Ph.D. & M.A. in Linguistics (Syntax, minor field Computational Linguistics). Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.
B.S. in Computer Science (minor field linguistics). Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge, LA.