Pablo Romano
Lead Data Scientist
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPablo Romano is a Lead Data Scientist with a PhD in Physical Chemistry and about a decade of experience translating scientific insight into production ML systems. He currently leads data science at The New York Times, where he designs and deploys ML and NLP solutions to real-world editorial and reader-facing challenges. Earlier in his career, he led and contributed to data science initiatives at USAA, advancing from Senior Data Scientist to Lead within a few years. His background as a Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Oregon and his PhD training provide a rigorous foundation for building auditable, principled models. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he brings cross-disciplinary expertise from academia and industry to deliver scalable AI solutions. Known for blending scientific rigor with pragmatic software delivery, Pablo emphasizes transparent ML workflows and collaboration across product and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physical Chemistry at University of Oregon
English, Spanish
Github Skills (55)
python10
data-science10
scikit10
statistics10
machine-learning10
numpy10
deep-learning10
neural-networks10
gpu10
scikit-learn10
data-analysis10
emma9
acceleration9
autograd9
markov9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pgromano/Markov_Models
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 139 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year
markovapimarkov-models
pgromano/pinky
Mar 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 7 comments in 3 years 6 months
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