Ian Beaver
Chief Data Scientist
Yavapai County, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolIan Beaver is a Chief Data Scientist with over a decade of experience translating academic research in HCI, gesture recognition, and conversational AI into deployed products that optimize contact center productivity. He leads Verint’s Da Vinci AI research organization, managing IP, HPC-backed experiments, and a portfolio of applied research that bridges academia and industry. Ian has a strong publication and service record—serving as an associate editor and columnist for AAAI AI Magazine and as a PC member at top AI/NLP conferences—while also advising curriculum and strategy for university and nonprofit programs. His background spans hands-on engineering (distributed training, full‑stack NLP tools, HPC clusters) to executive research leadership and patent development. He combines deep technical rigor from a PhD in computer science with practical consulting experience through his own firm, helping startups and enterprises operationalize AI. A less obvious strength is his sustained focus on human-centered automation: improving both agent productivity and customer experience rather than AI for its own sake.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of New MexicoMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Eastern Washington UniversityAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS at Columbia Basin College
Github Skills (30)
languagetool9
lexicon9
sklearn8
grammar7
k8s6
client-go6
standardized6
machine-learning6
pytorch6
artificial-intelligence6
unfold5
aws5
tensorflow5
kubeflow5
kubernetes5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ian-beaver/pycontractions
Jul 2017 - Dec 2021
Intelligently expand and create contractions in text leveraging grammar checking and Word Mover's Distance.
Contributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 5 months
leveraginggrammarlanguagetoolcheckingdistance
undercoveridiot/gunfolds
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
exploretruthunfoldcausalgraphs
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