I'm Zander, a data scientist at Deloitte Consulting 🟢 where I help government agencies implement the latest in AI technology. I'm also an alum of the Computational Analysis & Public Policy (CAPP) program at the University of Chicago and a research assistant in the Chicago Human + AI (CHAI) Lab.
I am passionate about combining data and analytics into products that improve people's lives.
- Machine Learning
- Graph Analytics
- Human + AI Interaction
- Natural Language Processing
- Parallel Computing
- AI Ethics
- Data Visualization
- Music Recommendation Algorithm: implemented two recommendation algorithms from scratch and evaluated on music album dataset.
- Parallelizing Co-occurrence Matrices: implemented an algorithm from scratch to calculate a co-occurence matrix from a set of documents in parallel and evaluated performance across different core configurations.
- Chicago Human + AI (CHAI) Lab
- NLP Analysis of Divisiveness in Political Speech
- "Uprooting or Sowing Violence?: Coca Eradication & Guerrilla Violence in Colombia." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism Volume 40, Issue 9 (July 2017).
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