Riad Jarjour
Lead Data Scientist
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRiad Jarjour is a Lead Data Scientist with 12 years of experience combining rigorous statistical training (PhD in Statistics) with practical ML and data engineering in finance and enterprise settings. Currently at Wells Fargo he leads data science teams as a product owner, delivering end-to-end analytics and reporting solutions and earning consistent top performance ratings. Previously he built full financial data pipelines and blended predictive models for hedge fund analytics and stock ratings, demonstrating both modeling depth and production deployment skills. His academic work includes co-authoring widely used R tooling (Proftools and a GUI) with one of R’s core developers, reflecting a strong commitment to performance-aware analytics. Based in Iowa City, he brings a rare mix of quantitative rigor, hands-on engineering, and experience translating complex statistical methods into operational business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Finance, GPA: 3.99, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Finance, GPA: 3.99 at American University in DubaiMaster of Science - MS, Statistics, GPA: 4.10, Master of Science - MS, Statistics, GPA: 4.10 at University of Iowa
Github Skills (21)
twitter7
facebook7
act5
php-library5
google5
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php5
jquery-plugin4
rewrite4
react3
javascript3
autocomplete3
typeahead2
typescript2
visualization2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ltierney/Rpkg-proftools-GUI
Mar 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:98 commits, 4 PRs, 60 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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