Luca Pernie
Senior Data Scientist
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuca Pernie is a Senior Data Scientist with 12 years of experience bridging high-energy physics and financial fraud detection, holding a PhD for work that contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson and authoring 400+ publications. After leading calibration, alignment and rare-signal searches at CERN and Texas A&M—where his algorithms improved sensitivity by factors of two to three—he transitioned to industry building real-time deep-learning fraud models for FICO’s Falcon platform. He now applies that blend of large-scale data engineering, probabilistic modeling and behavioral analytics at SmartAsset to detect subtle patterns across billions of transactions. Comfortable leading cross-disciplinary teams, he combines rigorous statistical methods from particle physics with production-grade ML to reduce false positives while preserving customer experience. An uncommon asset is his track record of turning physics-grade reconstruction techniques (like the HME likelihood method) into practical solutions for noisy, high-volume real-world data.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Université libre de BruxellesBachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Sapienza Università di Roma
French, Spanish, Italian, English
Github Skills (24)
cms10
backbonejs10
cockpit10
edtech10
eta8
approval-testing8
calibration8
testing7
physics6
automation5
validation5
python5
build-configuration3
ansible-collections3
muon3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cms-tamu/MuJetAnalysis_bbBarEstimation
Oct 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years
estimationjetmachine-learningbackground
cms-mual/PlottingTools
May 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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