Alexander Ruch Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Embrace the Joy of Self-DiscoveryLore makes it easy to participate in conversations in the areas that are important to you. With Lore, prompted exploration leads to new connections, communication strategies, and actions.Make Friends for Health, Not Likes or SwipesLore users share goals, struggles, and experiences in pursuit of greater health and enjoyment. Lore’s anonymous and accountable environment encourages growth and honest exchange.Find Happiness in Your Everyday ActionsOur feelings and lifestyles impact the amount of inflammation we have in our body and the likelihood that we will experience disease. Forming new habits to optimize our daily decisions is hard—even when we know what to do. Lore combines ground-breaking AI with the power of humans to allow for durable change.Health is Created and Contagious Within Our Communities * Human beings are social: we need other people to feel comfortable, supported, and safe. Even just listening closely, with regard for each other’s well-being, can provide dramatic therapeutic benefit. Conversely, loneliness and social isolation have wide-ranging destructive consequences on a person's physical and mental health. * Who you're connected to is consequential because of what flows across those connections. It's not just the obvious things like fashion, popular music, and trends. A myriad of other thoughts and behaviors are seeded and grow here, too, like what seems normal, what you believe is true and possible, and how a person might realize those aspirations. Even health itself seems to flow through our networks of strong and weak ties. * Lore gives people the tools to build health-promoting connections. It curates the networks that emerge in order to support the flow of norms, beliefs, knowledge, and agency-promoting attitudes in service of rich and joyful lives and positive health outcomes.

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New York, Ny, Us

Engineering Solutions serves 6K+ global customers and 650K+ engineers. We connect trusted knowledge to customers’ workflows, mitigate risk, increase efficiency, and accelerate innovation, delivering unparalleled integration of content and AI technologies to surface answers from technical knowledge inside and outside organizations. We connect data siloed in different sources, enabling professionals to make better, more informed decisions faster.The Graph ML team I lead designs and distributes automated processes focused on multi-modal modeling services and infrastructure to enable our digital transformation products. Our workflows combine data from structured tabular sources as well as unstructured text, graph, and image sources. Our knowledge graphs provide a 360°-view of customer data that covers what entities and relationships/interactions exist in networks and the content that flows through those dynamically evolving connections.As the Associate Director / Head of Graph ML, I standardized and conducted interviews for MLEs, ML research engineers, MLOps engineers, and data scientists. I recruited and hired 10+ individuals for these roles and others (e.g., DevOps, Data Engineering, SWE).As the founder of an early-stage team, I hired members, mentored direct reports, educated stakeholders and team members in cross-functional business units, defined the company’s vision and strategy for graph ML and MLOps across all data science teams, and delivered content highlighted in leadership publications and media in cooperation with other leads.Our products included pipelines that generated metrics that help customers understand the quality of networked data, ML models which provided measures of similarity and propensity for connection between different entities, enhanced entity resolution and linkage from unstructured data, and workflows that assist engineers’ development of complex components and systems where new connections can have unexpected effects.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Leading machine learning engineering within the music industry knowledge graph squad in Spotify's Content Intelligence Product Area. ML Guild Organizer, Graph Teams Lead, Graph Database Teams Lead, Human-in-the-Loop Guild Member, TechU Contributor, etc. Helping connect desperate data from across the company and generating insights that are otherwise hidden in non-networked data. #ItsAllConnected!Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them. Have you ever had a debate at a party about who originally wrote a song versus who covered it? Tried to find a sample you loved more than the song you heard it in? Wondered who was actually in the recording booth for your favorite song (on both sides of the glass)? Wonder what Britney Spears, Nsync, Pink, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and The Weeknd all have in common? (The same songwriter wrote Billboard number-one singles for all of them). Who gets paid every time we sing “Happy Birthday”?Music attribution at scale is one of the great unsolved technical problems of the music industry, and we’re building powerful technology to solve it. Our goal is to solve this problem for the tens of millions of music tracks playable on Spotify, building a knowledge graph through innovative machine learning models, deep domain expertise, and close integration with human-in-the-loop processes across Spotify and the industry. Content Platform’s catalog data powers Spotify experiences from Artist pages in the app, search and recommendations, human playlist curation, Spotify for Artists, and our music industry-facing strategy.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

New York, Us

Graphika leverages the power of artificial intelligence to create the world’s most detailed maps of social media landscapes. We pioneer new analytical methods and tools to help our partners navigate complex online networks. I contribute to toolkit by developing innovative deep learning models for graph and language data – scaling our models to analyze millions of observations.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

Earned a PhD in Sociology (computational social science, network science) with a Graduate Minor in Information Science (artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing). NFS-funded Graduate Research Assistant with Dr. Michael Macy. Co-administrator of the Cornell Social Dynamics Laboratory directly managing 15+ stellar Undergraduate and Graduate Research Assistants. Co-founder of the Cornell Computational Social Science Reading Group.

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Earned 2018-2019 Fellowship with the Duke Network Analysis Center, Duke Population Research Institute, and NICHD, which host the Social Networks and Health workshop on researching health and health behaviors using social network analysis methods such as: - Ego network analysis - Diffusion and peer influence - Communities in networks - Respondent-driven sampling - Statistical models for networks (ERGM, AMEN, SOAM) - Agent-based modeling

Developed, trained, tested/validated, and deployed state-of-the-art deep learning models for machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision applications with PyTorch. Studied multi-layer perceptrons, convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, generative adversarial networks, embedding models, transfer learning, attention, autoencoders, and distributed computing over CPUs and GPUs. Received direct and personal mentorship from Facebook Artificial Intelligence and Udacity.

Iowa City, Iowa, Us

Graduate Laboratory Manager for the University of Iowa Center for the Study of Group Processes (2015-2016).Teaching Assistant for the following courses:- Introduction to Sociology Principles (2013)- Research Methods (2013, 2015)- Global Criminology (2014)- Sociology of Health (2014)- Law and Society (2016)

Buffalo, Ny, Us

Lab web page: http://foodsystemsplanning.ap.buffalo.edu/.Project web page: http://growingfoodconnections.org/.Numerous factors influence food access, food security, and the connections between farmers and those to whom they sell their produce. As part of the Growing Food Connections project, headed by Dr. Samina Raja (from the University at Buffalo), I assisted in analyzing food systems across the United States and identifying communities where such gaps can be bridged.

Buffalo, Ny, Us

As part of a series of studies headed by Dr. Teresa Quattrin and conducted in partnership between the University at Buffalo and Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo, I aided in the implementation and assessment of several programs aiming to enhance and evaluate educational approaches to preventing childhood obesity within Western New York.

Buffalo, Ny, Us

To engage the local community and empower them to promote community health, I assisted in performing a community health assessment headed by Dr. Heather Orom (from the University at Buffalo) of a low-income community located in Buffalo. Following the health assessment, I was part of a team that disseminated the information learned from the study back to the community and engaged community members in taking further action to enact programs they desired.

Buffalo, Ny, Us

As Ambassador at the University at Buffalo, I represented the School of Public Health and Health Professions and my own department, Community Health and Health Behavior, at national conferences, local health programs, and school recruiting events. Being Ambassador also provided me with the opportunity to connect with prospective students, help answer their questions, and assist them in networking with faculty and staff who have shared interests.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Sociology And Information Science

Master Of Arts (Ma), Sociology

Master Of Public Health, Community Health And Health Behavior

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology