Developing a Critical Thinking and Rational Decision-Making course for Ukraine.Founded the company with three former colleagues from Genuone/Sensitech to implement novel ideas for a proprietary commodity trading system and offer consulting services to select clients. The self-funded company turned a net profit (pre-tax) of over $1M within a year.

Head of R&D (Data Science) and BI teams

Finery was acquired by Stitchfix.Applied data science to build ground-breaking 'Wardrobe Operating System™".Lead a team of talented data scientists to develop AI styling expert system, NLP classifier, chatbot, customer behavior models and much more.

Led a team of 12 data scientists to enhance Tapad's device graph.Proposed and spearheaded an innovative application of NLP techniques to Tapad core business.Championed adoption of AutoML tools to increase data scientist productivity and to serve as a foundation for data-science-in-a-box offering to company's clients.

"Preemptive Shipping: How Gilt Predicts Which Customers Will Buy Products It Has Never Sold Before" - Strata, New York http://strataconf.com/stratany2014/public/schedule/detail/36225"Gilt's pre-emptive shipping is an experiment in data science" - SearchCIO,http://searchcio.techtarget.com/feature/Gilts-pre-emptive-shipping-is-an-experiment-in-data-science"Bellwethers" - Data Gotham, New York - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k4WiNXqAgc"Igor Elbert on Data Science and Analytics at Gilt.com" - https://medium.com/the-data-janitors/igor-elbert-on-data-science-and-analytics-at-gilt-com-f7a825e65872"Quantifying Loyalty and Anti-Loyalty" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjfITIXhHLc"Heel Size By State" - Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/11/highest-heels-by-state_n_6141306.html"Guess where people wear the highest heels' - AOL http://www.aol.com/article/2014/11/05/you-won-t-guess-which-state-wears-the-highest-heels/20988964/Interview with KDnuggets - http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/12/interview-igor-elbert-gilt-analytics-curated-shopping.html"Can You Use Data In Fashion? According To Gilt, You Can" - interview with InnovationEnterprise http://channels.theinnovationenterprise.com/articles/215-interview-with-principal-data-scientist-gilt-groupe-igor-elbert"Quantifying International Impact of e-Commerce Offerings" - Customer Analytics Innovation Summit https://ieondemand.com/divisions/analytics/events/232/presentations/quantifying-international-impact-of-e-commerce-offerings#sthash.ijZcS43C.dpuf"Meta-SQL" - short intro into Meta-SQL for Uncubed.com - http://edge.uncubed.com/courses/gilt-metasqlDelivered two presentations at Advancing Analytics International conference in Sydney, Australia"Visualizing Wisdom of the Crowd" - Big Data Conference, Boston, MA https://ieondemand.com/divisions/big-data/events/139/presentations/visualizing-wisdom-of-the-crowd

Led deployment of Aster MPP database for a variety of high-profile customers. Was responsible for the turn-key delivery of the functioning data warehouse and establishing a foundation for analytics and data science for my clients.Largest clients: Barnes and Noble and Gilt.com.Selected interesting projects:- Electronic Arts (Battlefield 3 beta telemetry analysis)- Full Tilt Poker (bot detection and money transfer analysis)

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