Erin Bradford

About

With a BS in Computer Science from the University of Notre Dame, I am a data scientist focused on machine learning algorithm design, optimization, data validation, computer vision, and natural language processing. Currently at Nielsen, I contribute to building ML models and generating actionable business insights, while previously leading NLP and data science initiatives at Booz Allen Hamilton and interning at Lucena Research. Proven track record delivering data-driven results and collaborating across teams to drive operational improvements.

Experience

• Data Scientist · Nielsen06-01-2021 –

  Senior data scientist responsible for developing machine learning models and generating business insights. Led projects including a variational autoencoder in PyTorch, audience segmentation via custom clustering, predictive analytics models, hyperparameter tuning, and feature engineering for improved decision making.

• Data Scientist · Booz Allen Hamilton08-01-2018 – 06-01-2021

  Developed NLP methods to extract key information from documents, mastered regex for text processing, researched BERT models and topic modeling; implemented data cleaning, metadata creation, and tooling for detection model development; leveraged PyTorch and TensorFlow; contributed to data science pipelines.

• Data Science Intern · Lucena Research05-01-2017 – 08-01-2017

  Architected and designed machine learning algorithms to predict stock behavior; implemented boosting and neural networks; used Python and SQL to access databases for data analysis.

Education

• University of Notre DameBS, Computer Science

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