Bob Flagg
Data Science Architect
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Flagg is a Data Science Architect with 14 years of experience turning mathematical rigor into production-grade NLP and ML systems. Based in Portland, Maine, he leads projects at Finch Computing that span named entity recognition, disambiguation, document clustering, topic modeling and deep NLP summarization for news and broadcast financial sentiment analysis. A PhD mathematician with a long history in academia and industry, he pairs theoretical foundations with hands-on engineering in Python, PyTorch and scikit-learn to ship robust models. His background includes building ML-driven recommendation and forecasting platforms and crafting advanced NLP pipelines since the early 2010s, and he brings uncommon breadth from teaching theoretical computer science to deploying real-time analytics.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Statement of Accomplishment, Natural Language Processing, Statement of Accomplishment, Natural Language Processing at CourseraStatement of Accomplishment, Artificial Intelligence, Statement of Accomplishment, Artificial Intelligence at ai-class.comCertificate with distinction, Social Network Analysis, 96.8%, Certificate with distinction, Social Network Analysis, 96.8% at https://www.coursera.org/course/snaPhD, Mathematics, Computer Science, PhD, Mathematics, Computer Science at State University of New York at BuffaloStatement of Accomplishment, Natural Language Processing, Completed the Advanced Track with a score of 91%, Statement of Accomplishment, Natural Language Processing, Completed the Advanced Track with a score of 91% at class.coursera.org/nlp/M.A., Mathematics, M.A., Mathematics at University of MaineCertificate with Distinction, Networked Life, 100%, Certificate with Distinction, Networked Life, 100% at https://www.coursera.org/course/networksCQF, Finance, CQF, Finance at 7city LearningCertificate with distinction, Data Analysis, 100%, Certificate with distinction, Data Analysis, 100% at https://www.coursera.org/course/compdataStatement of Accomplishment, Machine Learning, Statement of Accomplishment, Machine Learning at ml-class.orgStatement of Accomplishment, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Completed the Advanced Track with a score of 100%, Statement of Accomplishment, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Completed the Advanced Track with a score of 100% at class.coursera.org/algoCertificate with distinction, Data Science, 91%, Certificate with distinction, Data Science, 91% at https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci
English
Github Skills (14)
topic-modeling4
entity4
information-extraction4
entity-extraction3
nlp3
python3
visualization3
pytorch3
transformer3
bert2
natural-language-processing2
data-visualization2
named-entity-recognition2
transformers2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bobflagg/Financial-News-Sentiment-Analysis
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
bobflagg/CQF
Jan 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
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