Tyler Ward Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Provo, Utah, United States

- Built Bayesian Multinomial Logistic regression model to generate posterior distributions on over 100 parameters related to shot location probabilities between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal (publication in progress).- Leveraged Machine Learning algorithms including Random Forests, Weighted Boosting Algorithms (AdaBoost), Neural Networks, and Classification Trees to predict shot location in a tennis match, based on U.S Open tennis data. Tasks involved with this position:🔹Optimizing misclassification cost-sensitive AdaBoosting algorithm (AdaCost) to improve accuracy and limit radical errors🔹Restructured data, designed new, informative features to improved predictability of training data (reduced misclassification rate by 20%)🔹Designed conditional probability heat maps for coaching, scouting, and player analysis based on conditional probability matrices🔹Trained predictive models to predict next shot location in one of 14 different tennis court zones🔹Transformed posterior samples into log odds ratio and found statistically significant player behavior using HPD confidence intervals

Provo, Utah, United States

Tutored over 200 students in statistical inference and machine learning, including introductory statistics for engineers, Bayesian statistical methods, and data science and ML (including image recognition and recommender systems) methods in Python.

Provo, Utah, United States

Riverton, Utah, United States

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

🔹Trained logistic regression model to predict customer attrition🔹Developed end to end pipeline (PostgreSQL) from data warehouse to fitted predicted probabilities for output to Power BI dashboard🔹Performed model validation with large (1 million observation) datasets

Provo, Utah, United States

🔹Compiled R software code for Chromatogram Analysis research. 🔹Converted code from C to R for implementation and testing of derivative weights calculations and smoothing algorithms

Trained groups of 5-14 missionaries in Thai language speaking, reading, writing, and religious teaching.

Taught and coached Missionaries in preparation for full-time volunteer service for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Provo, Utah, United States

Developed RShiny web applications in line with Dr. Scott Grimshaw’s Movie Box Office Revenue Research

Performed maintenance/quality assurance of Garden Center displays and sales areas.Helped up to 50 customers per day.

Master Of Science - Ms, Statistics

Activities and Societies: President: Mu Sigma Rho Honor SocietyStatistics Department Scholarship Recipient

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Statistics: Applied Statistics And Analytics

Activities and Societies: Mu Sigma Rho Honor Society Vice President.GPA: 3.99/4.0 Magna Cum Laude 2-time Dean’s List recipient, 3-time.