Valery Kanevsky
Senior Principal Scientist at Independent Consultant
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolValery Kanevsky is a Senior Principal Scientist with 16 years of experience translating deep statistical theory into practical algorithms for diagnostics, fraud detection, and predictive modeling. He holds a PhD in Mathematics and Statistics and has worked across industry and academia—from AT&T and Hewlett-Packard to Agilent, Pay By Touch, Naval Postgraduate School, Allstate, and as an independent consultant—building Bayesian learning methods, sampling algorithms, and feature-selection frameworks now used in medical, insurance, and hardware-fault applications. He introduced concepts such as Dependency Breaker Subsets and (K,k)-Attractors and developed fast search algorithms that dramatically reduce data requirements for reliable learning; several approaches have been patented or published. Valery’s work spans both foundational contributions (Monte Carlo in infinite-dimensional spaces, exact density sampling) and pragmatic systems (driver identification via acceleration profiles, claims fraud prevention), reflecting a rare blend of theoretical depth and applied impact. An intriguing throughline in his career is using statistical sensitivity and chaos-to-order analyses to expose shortcuts in complex systems, enabling more efficient and robust inference in noisy real-world data.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics and Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics and Statistics at Russian academy of sciencesMaster's degree, Mathematics, Master's degree, Mathematics at Новосибирский Государственный Университет (НГУ)
Russian
Github Skills (2)
react6
gemini3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pkane2001/DeltaWave
Jun 2018 - Feb 2025
Audio waveform comparison and analysis tool
Contributions:1 PR, 238 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
sound-synthesiscomparisonaudioaudio-waveformwaveform
PKAstro/GFU
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 22 pushes in 10 months
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