Thomas Whitehead Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Northbrook, IL, US

• Analytics Advancement and Transformation
• Research and evaluate new tools and methods for the data science organization.
• Automated conversation segmentation. Research models for breaking conversations into topics and providing summaries for each topic.Co-chair of the Data Science Community of Practice
• Organize data science seminars to share technical insights throughout the enterprise.

Northbrook, IL, US

• Analytics Advancement and Transformation
• Sentiment classification of audio and text. Created a multimodal neural network model to classify portions of a conversation with positive and negative sentiment.
• Audio classification. Developed models to remove foreign language and hold music from audio recordings with the goal of improving downstream models and reducing media storage.
• Named Entity Recognition models using the Hugging Face implementation of RoBERTa. Developed models to identify dialog actions in conversations, providing information to dialog tracking algorithms.
• LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging). Investigated the capabilities of the iPhone's LiDAR sensor for machine learning models. Created a demonstration of point cloud classification models. Summer Intern Manager 2022
• Managed a summer intern. Created computer vision models for detecting aggressive driving behavior in dash camera videos.Internet of Things (IoT)

Munich, DE

• Spearheaded the development of optical products for metro optical networks resulting in 150% data throughput improvement. Designed and specified products to meet customer and system requirements.
• Specified and validated a 100 Gbps line-side DWDM coherent optical transceiver. Negotiated performance requirements with the supplier. Characterized the optical performance using Matlab.
• Designed and validated a 2.8 Tbps switch fabric for the mTera Universal Transport Platform. Created schematics using Mentor Graphics DxDesigner.
• Validated erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) for new pluggable optical layer products. Automated optical testing using Matlab.
• Validated 100 Gbps client-side optical transceivers (LR4, LR10, SR10) for interoperability between suppliers.
• Defined the optical requirements for an optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR).

Alhambra, CA, US

• Developed a high-speed optical transceiver for connecting Ethernet routers resulting in an order of magnitude improvement in data throughput. Created designs optimized for cost and manufacturability.
• Designed and characterized a 10-Gigabit serial fiber optic transceiver.
• Performed high-speed simulation using Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS) and circuit board layout using Altium P-CAD.
• Defined digital status reporting architecture and implemented Verilog FPGA code.
• Created microwave transmission line models in ADS Momentum electromagnetic modeling software. Correlated models with measurements taken on a high-speed probe station.
• Characterized high-speed performance of DFB and VCSEL lasers.

Phd, Electrical Engineering

Bsee, Electrical Engineering