Joseph Richards
Chief Operating Officer
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Richards is a COO and repeat entrepreneur with 15 years of experience translating advanced data science into production-grade products that scale—from early ML deployments at Wise.io to enterprise applications across GE’s aviation, power, and renewables businesses. With a PhD in Statistics and a history of building small, high-leverage teams, he blends analytical rigor with operational leadership to launch and scale mission-driven ventures, currently expanding access to plant-based school meals at Adda Veggie. He has hands-on experience shipping hundreds of in-production models and deploying ML across tens of thousands of assets, and he’s comfortable moving between research, product, and operations. A former Fulbright researcher and UC Berkeley lecturer, he brings an uncommon mix of academic depth and startup pragmatism to problems that intersect food systems, sustainability, and AI.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Statistics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Pomona College
Spanish, English
Github Skills (1)
python2
Github contributions (3)
qmorgan/qsoft
Dec 2010 - Aug 2011
Contributions:9 commits in 7 months
rcannood/diffusionMap
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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