Ian Parrish Email & Phone Number

Mclean, Va, Us

Head of data science for Capital One's Consumer Credit Card Segments. Responsible for marketing, underwriting, and valuations models for our US consumer cards, including subprime, super-prime, and partnerships lines of business. Leading a team of ~95 data scientists with a matrixed team of ~50 data, software, and machine learning engineers.

Mclean, Va, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

Data science and business executive responsible for all the machine learning & business modeling in Small Business Card at Capital One. Responsible for teams building models for marketing, credit risk assessment at acquisitions and customer management, fraud, as well as our customer life time valuations models. Also responsible for credit infrastructure and portfolio monitoring. In this role, I lead a cross-functional team of approximately 75 data scientist & analysts, ML & data engineers, business analysts, and product managersModel risk officer responsible for independent assessment of modeling in our Walmart partnership.

Mclean, Va, Us

Shaker Heights, Oh, Us

President of the Trade Association Board from May 2023 to present. Director on LLC board. Provide oversight to the data exchange that provides business credit data to participating members while promoting small businesses and providers of credit. Providing leadership in SBFE's cloud computing transformation.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Director of Tala's data science and machine learning team:• Lead a full stack data science team that implements machine learning models for credit, fraud, marketing, and other applications as well as developing the infrastructure to deploy these models.• Responsible for machine learning models that make over 1 billion dollars in automated lending decisions per year.• Coordinate with the executive, engineering, credit, and finance teams to prioritize data team projects.• Ensure that the team and our company adheres to the highest standards of data privacy, ethics, and fairness.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Manager of the Data Science Team• Developed and supervised the development of credit and fraud data science models to underwrite loans using Android smartphone data.• Supervised development of infrastructure for deployment, scaling, and evaluation of multiple data science models.• Directly responsible for conducting hiring to triple team size in one year.• Oversaw the growth of Tala's data science from one market to four.• Built multiple credit and fraud models from end-to-end.

Santa Monica, California, Us

I build credit and fraud models from mobile phone and other alternate data to provide lending opportunities and financial inclusion throughout the developing world. Promoted to senior data scientist during this period.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Independent research research fellow position in astrophysics. Over 30 publications with over 1,000 citations. • Continued managing 2 research students from Berkeley. 3 years experience recruiting and hiring postdocs for the institute.• Developer of C, C++, and Python software for supercomputing.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

This was a NASA prize fellowship position writing software to simulate astrophysics with supercomputers. • 5 years experience managing a group of 2-4, supervising software development, data analysis, and technical communication. Supervised 2 full Ph.D. theses.• Lead developer of C, C++, and Python code for massively parallel computing (over 100,000 cores). Analyzing the large resulting datasets (up to 1 TB), and communicating results in papers and presentations. • Contributor to open-source software, Athena: https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/Athena-Cversion (migrated from SVN repository)• Published 30+ papers and delivered over 100 presentations.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics

Bachelor’S Degree, Physics, Nuclear Engineering