Michael Albright Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Used data science to help engineers build and improve Meta's cloud infrastructure and internal software tools, with company-level, org-level, and team-level impacts. Examples include:◆Worked closely with engineers to A/B test alternative engineering choices for Meta's compute cloud, enabling an expedited rollout of new compute infrastructure that substantially reduced software build & test times for (and enhanced productivity for) thousands of software engineers.◆As the sole data scientist supporting a 90-person team, I built new data science tools to increase the team’s efficiency through automation and to increase impact by prioritizing their work in a data-driven way: ➝Met with managers, IC's, and product managers to identify data science projects.➝Proposed & scoped projects, prioritized requests, achieved buy in for projects.➝Executed data science projects from start to finish by developing new data sets, building & maintaining data pipelines, performing statistical analyses.➝Communicated results to stakeholders and leadership. ➝Helped my team adopt the new data science solutions to improve their efficiency.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Researched and developed machine learning & computer vision technologies to solve the most challenging problems for government customers including DARPA and IARPA. Examples include:◆Created novel machine-learning powered software to fight AI-generated online disinformation for the DARPA SemaFor program.◆Researched and developed computer vision algorithms to increase the resolution of satellite images while improving object detection for a government customer.◆Wrote and delivered high-quality software using tools including Python, scikit-learn, PyTorch, and Docker.◆Published research papers with novel inventions: http://bit.ly/MichaelAlbrightPublications

◆Took over as the PI for the Honeywell DARPA MediFor team: led the team to complete the remaining deliverables by deadlines; wrote the final technical report; worked closely with contracts, finance, and management to ensure a smooth completion of the program.◆Researched and developed computer vision algorithms to support new products in Honeywell Aerospace.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

◆Invented novel AI and ML technologies for the DARPA MediFor Program. Delivered high quality software to the customer by deadlines. Published multiple papers and a patent.◆Lead data scientist for a $1.3 million R&D project for the Department of Defense that used wireless sensors and smart lighting & HVAC controllers to achieve breakthrough energy savings at Tinker Air Force Base: planned the data collection and analysis, validated and monitored data throughout the project, analyzed data to quantify energy savings and economic ROI, co-wrote the final report, and presented the results at a Department of Defense symposium.◆Developed novel 3D computer vision technology for a Honeywell 3D scanning product to measure the size of dark objects that are challenging to scan.◆For more details see publications here: http://bit.ly/MichaelAlbrightPublications

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

◆Developed AI-powered computer vision software that won IARPA's UG2 Challenge for enhancing degraded images captured by autonomous vehicles. https://cvpr2022.ug2challenge.org/program18/winners18.html◆Led a $150k ML/computer vision R&D project to develop new features for a Honeywell product. Worked closely with business stakeholders and the product engineering team to understand and meet their needs.◆Created REST microservices with Docker to deploy machine learning models.◆System admin for a Spark cluster.

St. Paul, Mn

Full-stack software engineer in Performance Engineering: developed a software tool to automate labor-intensive performance optimization of Cray supercomputer libraries, resulting in improved supercomputer performance while reducing optimization times from days to hours. Wrote back-end and front-end code with a responsive web interface. Led design and implementation of optimization algorithms.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Theoretical Physics

Activities and Societies: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Awards: 3 year graduate school fellowship◆Developed.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Physics