Adam Tashman
Director, Data Science Capstone Program
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Tashman is a data science leader and educator with two decades of applied mathematics, statistics, and AI experience across startups, enterprises, and academia. He directs UVA’s Data Science Capstone Program and has built and scaled online masters programs while partnering with mission-driven sponsors to deliver real-world impact and student training. His applied work spans healthtech, fintech, govtech and edtech—developing clinical risk models, fraud detection systems, recommender engines, and early-warning patient surveillance using deep learning and survival analysis. Adam blends hands-on technical expertise (R, SAS, ML, NLP, generative AI) with program-building, having led biomedical informatics teams, advised public-sector customers at AWS, and created curriculum for K–12 and university audiences. Notably, he has translated research into deployed solutions—detecting PII in text, improving fraud flagging, and creating indexes to predict business risk—while mentoring the next generation of data scientists. Based in Charlottesville, he combines rigorous quantitative training (PhD in Applied Mathematics & Statistics) with a persistent focus on people and societal impact.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, PhD, Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Stony Brook UniversityMA, Mathematics with specialization in the Mathematics of Finance, MA, Mathematics with specialization in the Mathematics of Finance at Columbia University in the City of New YorkSmithtown High SchoolBA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at University of VirginiaProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
UVADS/distributed_computing
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:190 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
UVADS/data_engineering
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:119 commits, 7 pushes in 11 months
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