Schaun Wheeler
Chief Scientist And Co-Founder at Aampe
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSchaun Wheeler is a data scientist and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building decision automation systems and production-grade ML for organizations ranging from the U.S. Army to fast-growing edtech and ad-tech companies. As Chief Scientist and Co‑Founder of Aampe, he applies reinforcement learning and human-guided agents to personalize customer experiences and decide not just what to deliver, but when—and whether—to engage. He previously led Consumer Graph and location-semantics efforts at Valassis and built a data science organization at Success Academy that automated reporting from days to minutes. Trained as an anthropologist (Ph.D.), Schaun brings deep qualitative insight to problems with no clear ground truth, inventing pragmatic algorithms and tools (including open-sourcing geospatial investigation tooling) to make messy signals actionable. He combines rigorous field research, production ML, and product instincts to turn ambiguous data into reliable, automated decisions. Based in Raleigh, NC, he thrives at the intersection of human behavior, causal thinking, and scalable engineering.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Anthropology, Ph.D. Anthropology at University of ConnecticutB.A. Anthropology European Studies Middle-Eastern Studies, B.A. Anthropology European Studies Middle-Eastern Studies at Weber State University
English, Russian, German, Kyrgyz
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Github Skills (28)
visualization10
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data-visualisation9
browser9
altair9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
schaunwheeler/tmt
Sep 2012 - Jun 2014
Contributions:50 commits in 1 year 9 months
nlpmanipulationtext-manipulation
schaunwheeler/mcmcglmm
Sep 2012 - Nov 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 2 years 2 months
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