Justin Talbot Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Member of the Office of the CTO's leadership team. Advise Chief Technical Officer on research and advanced development directions.Help senior leadership develop yearly strategic roadmap. Prepare and present roadmap summaries to Tableau's senior leadership team and to the board of directors.Evaluate M&A opportunities.Perform architectural reviews of major.

Seattle, WA, US

Led multiple applied R&D efforts focused on developing solutions to some of the key challenges in Tableau's core analytic area. Led teams of 3--12 members in brainstorming, prototype development, and evaluation. Wrote initial problem definitions and resulting roadmaps. Presented results to senior management.Consulting architect for Tableau's query.

Stanford, CA, US

Developed a high performance version of the R statistical language. Involved research in JIT compilation strategies, virtual machine design, and data structures for scalable, high-performance data analytics. Published as:Justin Talbot, Zachary DeVito, and Pat Hanrahan. Just-in-time Length Specialization of Dynamic Vector Code. ARRAY 2014.Justin Talbot.

Growing out of my Ph.D. work, I helped found 386 Gates, Inc; developed business plans, built prototypes, pitched investors and customers, interviewed potential hires. Shortly before incorporation, I pulled the plug due to differences of opinion on company organization and product direction with my co-founder.The company eventually became 0xdata, then.

Redmond, Washington, US

Developed a visualization tool, EnsembleMatrix, for human-guided improvements to ensemble machine learning algorithms. Planned and executed a user study of the system, demonstrating that, with a human in the loop, our system could achieve substantially higher accuracy classification results than the state of the art automated method. Published as:Justin.

Walldorf, BW, DE

Developed a prototype trend-tracking tool for internal use at SAP. Portions of the project were presented to SAP’s CEO and board members. Project incorporated research directions from information foraging and automatic text summarization in a community-driven website geared towards tracking industry trends. Published as:Omar Alonso and Justin Talbot..

Redmond, Washington, US

Worked on Visio and OfficeArt, Office’s core rendering library (as part of a “SWATteam” fixing high priority problems late in the development cycle)Gained experience with GDI/GDI+, OLE, remote development, and large-scale commercial software development practices---C++, code review, version control, debugging, and working with program managers and testers

Helped start-up develop the first release of the T-Splines Maya plugin in C++. Researched generalizations of t-splines (a mathematical 3D surface representation) to arbitrary topology meshes.

Provo, UT, US

Researched and published statistical techniques for reducing error in renderedimages. Implemented global illumination systems using path tracing, bi-directional path tracing, and Metropolis Light Transport. Published as:Justin F. Talbot, David Cline, and Parris K. Egbert. Importance Resampling for Global Illumination. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering.

Ph.D., Computer Science

M.S., Computer Science

B.S. Cum Laude, Computer Science