Ari Chanen
Principal AI Consultant at Halvik
Reston, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAri Chanen is a seasoned AI data scientist and consultant based in Reston, Virginia, blending hands-on ML engineering with strategic AI leadership across finance, education, and safety-critical domains. As Principal AI Consultant at AI Ari Consulting (since 2020) he leads POC design and deployment of NLP and LLM solutions on Google Cloud, including a daily topic-analysis system for Brazilian Portuguese financial news and robust data pipelines that he maintained for over two years. Previously at MITRE as Lead AI Engineer, he directed large-scale AI/NLP/ASR efforts in air traffic management, pioneered neural embeddings to handle domain-specific synonyms and misspellings, and built geolocation extraction tools for hazard mapping. At Strategic Education, Inc, he served as VP of AI and Automation, launching SEI's first homegrown AI initiatives, guiding cloud migration to GCP, hiring AI talent, and developing an in-house NLP system for emails, chats, and transcripts. He holds a PhD in Statistical Natural Language Processing from the University of Sydney and MS/BS from MIT, with a career illustrating a strong bridge between rigorous research and production-grade AI systems. Based in the DC area, he combines leadership, deep technical depth, and a track record of guiding organizations through AI transformations, from vendor evaluations to scalable cloud deployments and education-focused innovation.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science., Fields of study: CS, AI, NLP, Bachelors of Science., Fields of study: CS, AI, NLP at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe University of Sydney
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Github Skills (5)
google-cloud4
formatting3
aws3
manipulation2
obsidian2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
arichanen/LLM-QA-Bot
Sep 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 months
arichanen/legalex
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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