Summary
Eric Blair is a data scientist with nine years of experience building production-ready ML and NLP systems, currently leading proof-of-concept initiatives for Bank of America through Applegreen in the Portland area. He has engineered end-to-end natural language understanding at Microsoft鈥攃ombining n-grams, synonyms, sentiment, clustering, and ontology checks to drive conversational flows鈥攁nd now applies that expertise to CV and NLP prototypes like ATM vestibule surveillance and contract processing. Comfortable mentoring teams, he led a Stanford-sponsored WiDS datathon team to 4th place among 18 Bank of America teams, demonstrating both technical depth and effective collaboration. Eric blends transfer learning and applied machine learning with pragmatic deployment experience, translating complex models into actionable business outcomes. He holds coursework from Harvard and brings a knack for turning research techniques into robust, auditable tools in regulated environments.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Harvard University