James Peerless
Senior AI Product Manager at Citrine Informatics
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJames Peerless is a Senior AI Product Manager at Citrine Informatics with nine years of experience at the intersection of AI/ML, materials science, and polymer chemistry. He leverages a PhD in Materials Science from NC State and a background in chemical engineering to translate complex computational methods and lab-scale insights into product features that accelerate materials discovery. At Citrine he’s progressed from data scientist to senior product roles, leading customer-facing technical teams and managing AI product strategy tied to real revenue-generating projects. His work blends hands-on scientific programming and ML model interpretability with domain expertise in thin-film processes and nanoscale simulation. Unusually for a product lead, he has authored novel visualization methodologies and built surrogate models during his graduate research, bringing principled uncertainty quantification into product thinking. Based in Raleigh, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic industry experience to bridge R&D and customer impact.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Materials Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Materials Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Science Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Chemical Engineering at Northeastern UniversityNorthwest Catholic
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Github Skills (14)
scrape7
asynchronous6
apache-kafka6
cookie6
curl6
cassandra6
regex6
concurrency6
connection-pooling6
transition6
python4
binding3
data-model2
materials-informatics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jspeerless/citrine-python
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:25 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
yingling-group/flory_fox_scraper
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Program to (a) scrape information on glass transition temperatures of polymers and (b) perform a Flory-Fox fit.
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 8 months
pythonglassscrapetransitionfit
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