Jake Schmidt Email & Phone Number

South San Francisco, California, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

- Designed and profiled fault-tolerant, memory-efficient distributed data-parallel and mixed precision training pipelines that increased GPU utilization by 10% and quickened model training by 5% through techniques such as activation checkpointing, gradient compression, and ZeRO Stage 1 optimizer state sharding- Increased model artifact discoverability and accessibility through the deployment of a cloud-based model registry and developed patterns for finetuning and backbone surgery- Trained embedding models for petabyte-scale cellular morphology datasets and evaluated them using techniques such as linear probing, the SHAP algorithm, and custom distributional distance metrics

Houston, Texas, Us

- Promoted to Senior Data Scientist in Mar 2019 for demonstrating exceptional leadership and technical aptitude- Researched actor-critic methods and model-based reinforcement learning solutions for an optimal control problem- Built deep learning systems for timeseries classification and anomaly detection projected to save $XX million in CapEx for FY2021

San Francisco, California, Us

Designing ETL and model training pipelines for bioacoustics

Austin, Texas, Us

- Wrote Python scripts to process and integrate heterogeneous data from multiple experimental models- Collected and analyzed time series data with MATLAB to characterize acoustic sensors

- Wrote persuasive, concise and accessible articles about current issues in STEM for student newspaper- Deemed best college columnist of 2016 by Pulitzer prize winner Leonard Pitts, Jr. in national competition (see Honors)

Alexandria, Va, Us

- Developed a data-driven business model for a novel COPD treatment technology- Awarded $2000 for evidence-based insights into the oxygen therapy/healthcare space

Bachelor’S Degree, Physics, Honors

Master Of Science - Ms, Business Analytics