Tyler Giallanza
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Uber
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Giallanza is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience who blends academic rigor from a PhD program in Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton with hands-on product work in search and recommendations at Uber. He builds retrieval, ranking, and suggestion systems for Uber Eats, applying neural network and reinforcement learning expertise developed through graduate research on memory, learning, and decision-making. His background spans applied science internships, strategy consulting, and founding an educational tech camp, reflecting both technical depth and strategic product thinking. Comfortable moving models from theory to production, he leverages interdisciplinary training—from Oxford computer science to neuroscience—to tackle user-facing ML challenges in high-scale environments.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of OxfordB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Southern Methodist UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychology/Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychology/Neuroscience at Princeton University
Chinese
Github Skills (21)
arules10
python8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
data-science8
r-package7
weighted7
tensorflow7
cognitive-science7
neuroscience7
cran6
modeling6
classification6
r6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tylergiallanza/arulesCWAR
Oct 2018 - May 2020
Code for Classification by Weighted Association Rules
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 7 months
nlppythonassociationfactorizationdeep-learning
tylergiallanza/cmcsc
May 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:122 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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