Ian Whalen
Principal Data Scientist I
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Whalen is a Principal Data Scientist leading QuantumBlack Labs R&D in Chicago, with 11 years of experience building and shipping ML solutions across energy, mining, aerospace, medtech, and non-profits. He combines deep research roots—an MS in Computer Science focused on evolutionary computation—with hands-on expertise in Python, C++, and SQL to deliver control optimization, energy-trading systems, and GenAI/LLM applications spanning multimodal, RAG, and agentic settings. Ian has incubated foundational software assets that accelerate client work while advancing fair and explainable AI, predictive modeling, and optimization research. He brings a pragmatic blend of formal mathematics and object-oriented engineering, and retains a long-standing interest in evolutionary algorithms and artificial life that informs his approach to high-dimensional feature selection and neural architecture search.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Michigan State University
English
Github Skills (38)
pipeline9
kedro9
prediction8
collections8
python8
science8
matrix8
metadata8
machine-learning8
feature-selection8
modular8
schema7
architecture7
bioinformatics7
laravel7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ianwhale/tblup
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Trait BLUP, a Feature Selection Package for Genomic Prediction
Contributions:143 commits, 2 PRs, 88 pushes in 6 months
genomic-predictiontraitpredictionbioinformaticsselection
ianwhale/pytorchnet
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:44 pushes in 3 months
deep-learningpytorchmachine-learning
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