Andrew West
Principal Research Scientist (Business Intelligence & Data Analytics Verisign Labs)
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolAndrew West is a Principal Research Scientist at Verisign Labs with 12+ years applying deep learning, forecasting, and big-data analytics to Internet-scale problems in the domain name industry and marketing. He combines rigorous academic training (Ph.D. from UPenn) and a 35+ paper publication record with practical impact—his dissertation work produced tools like STiki that removed over 1.1 million harmful Wikipedia edits. At Verisign he designs generative and classification models, lifecycle forecasting, and crowd-sourced measurement systems while also pursuing publications and IP. His research breadth spans reputation management, abuse detection, underground economies, and behavioral profiling, bringing emergent ML techniques to business questions. Based in the DC area, he remains an active Wikipedia volunteer and translates academic rigor into internal insights that shape product and competitive intelligence.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Washington and Lee UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer and Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (37)
intellij10
wikipedia9
deploying9
keras-tensorflow9
amazon9
c-library8
python8
keras8
scala8
java8
differentiation8
spark8
artificial-intelligence8
linear-algebra8
modular7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
westand/STiki
Jul 2013 - Dec 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 27 pushes in 5 years 5 months
antidamagewikipediawikiswiki
deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Suite of tools for deploying and training deep learning models using the JVM. Highlights include model import for keras, tensorflow, and onnx/pytorch, a modular and tiny c++ library for running math code and a java based math library on top of the core c++ library. Also includes samediff: a pytorch/tensorflow like library for running deep learn...
Contributions:2 comments, 2 issues in 1 day
deeplearning4jpythonautomatic-differentiationneural-netskeras-tensorflow
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