Brock Ferguson
Head Of AI & Research at Zoo North, Inc.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBrock Ferguson is Head of AI & Research and a machine learning scientist with 14 years of industry experience and over two decades building products and companies. He co-founded and scaled multiple startups—Electric Function, Strong Analytics (acquired and later merged), and Zoo North—bringing research rigor from a PhD in cognitive psychology to practical ML and AI productization. Brock has led AI teams across startups and acquired businesses, balancing hands-on modeling and system design with strategic leadership as CTO and advisor for SaaS portfolios. Based in North Vancouver, he blends cognitive-science insights about learning and communication with robust engineering practices to build production-ready ML solutions. Unusually for a leader, he remains an active founder-operator, continuing to design and invest in digital products while running enterprise AI research.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Cognitive Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Cognitive Psychology at Northwestern UniversityKellogg School of ManagementBA Psychology, BA Psychology at University of Ottawa
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Github Skills (74)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brockf/membrr
Jun 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 8 pushes, 4 comments in 4 years 10 months
strongio/strong-bootcamp
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
A Python package that makes it easier to test and compare machine learning models before they are deployed.
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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