About Andy Mahdavi

20+ years bringing large datasets and scientific rigor to insurance, credit card lending, hyper real-time fraud detection, high energy particle physics, and astrophysics. • Data science/analytics leader with expertise in connecting empathically with customers, regulators, vendors, and business partners. • Designed bulletproof parallel machine learning paradigms at Capital One, deployed instantaneous insurance policy generation models at States Title, and wrote 40+ peer-reviewed articles for top-tier internationally recognized journals, with 2500+ peer-reviewed citations. • Experience spinning up and managing teams that work in as diverse environments as python, Java, R, C, or C++; data science platforms such as scikit-learn, H2O, tensorflow, and Apache Spark; and distributed training and productionization platforms including Hadoop, AWS, and bare-metal Linux clusters. • Oversaw teams required to deal with data sources as diverse as the Hubble Space Telescope, API-based real-estate property data feeds, fraud and identity aggregator bulk data sets, electronic county-level mortgage and default records, in-house TeraData feeds of credit card transactions and statements, and RAID-based NASA archives and particle physics experiments. • United States Fulbright Scholar at Germany's Max-Planck-Institut.