Stephen Elston
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Elston is a principal consultant, data scientist, and AI engineer with over three decades of experience building analytics products, teaching advanced courses, and guiding companies from concept through acquisition. He founded and led analytics firms, including FinAnalytica which was acquired by FactSet, and today runs Quantia Analytics advising clients like Microsoft and global banks on big data architectures and ML deployments. An instructor for Harvard Extension School and the University of Washington, he designs and teaches graduate-level courses in deep learning, computer vision, and probabilistic AI while mentoring capstone projects. Technically fluent across Python, R, SQL/NoSQL, TensorFlow/Keras, streaming analytics, and cloud architectures, he pairs hands-on modeling and performance tuning with productionization and IP strategy. His domain expertise spans financial market analytics, fraud prevention, customer retention, and location-based real-time systems—a mix that reflects both academic rigor (Princeton PhD) and product-focused execution. He is notable for translating advanced research (reinforcement learning, machine vision, tick-level trading models) into scalable commercial systems and teaching materials used by industry and academia.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Math, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Math at The University of New MexicoPh.D., MS, Geophysics, Ph.D., MS, Geophysics at Princeton University
English
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Github Skills (60)
jupyterhub10
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ipython10
multi-user10
supervised-learning10
jupyter-notebook10
binary-classification10
jupyter9
image-processing9
data-science9
apl9
euler9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
StephenElston/CSCI-E25
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Course materials for Harvard Extension School computer visions course, CSCI E-25
Contributions:164 commits, 386 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
pythoncscicomputer-visionimage-processingharvard
MicrosoftLearning/Reinforcement-Learning-Explained
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
This repository contains the lab files for Microsoft course DAT257x: Reinforcement Learning Explained
Contributions:47 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 10 months
explainedreinforcement-learningmicrosoftreinforcementlab
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