Tyler Folkman Email & Phone Number

Lehi, Ut, Us

Provo, Utah, United States

Accountable for the entire TubeBuddy business line of BENlabs. We have a world class team building SaaS to help brands and creators succeed on YouTube.

Provo, Utah, United States

Accountable for an amazing team of data science, engineering, product, UX, AI research, and advanced analytics.

Provo, Utah, United States

Provo, Utah Area

Lehi, Utah, United States

The Chair of the AI Chapter of Silicon Slopes.

A member of the board of advisors for the MS program in Business Analytics at the University of Utah's business school.

Provo, Utah Area

Faculty profile: https://economics.byu.edu/Pages/Faculty%20Pages/Tyler-Folkman.aspxI am teaching the first ever applied machine learning class in the economics department at BYU. The class is open-source on GitHub:https://github.com/tfolkman/byu_econ_applied_machine_learning

Lehi, Ut

Lead Ancestry's personalization and recommendation data science team. We focus on maximizing the value of Ancestry's data for our users by extracting more content, linking billions of records, and providing personalized recommendations.The data science problems we tackle include natural language processing, computer vision, record linking, and ranking.Our work in the news:https://www.wsj.com/articles/ancestry-taps-ai-to-sift-through-millions-of-obituaries-11573554603

Lehi, Utah

• Developed large-scale machine learning models for entity recognition. Patented and published.• Wrote and deployed production code that leverages machine learning in real-time.News coverage:• https://goo.gl/k9uXJT• https://goo.gl/4BBo2J• https://goo.gl/XFsrAL

Austin, Texas Area

• Developed homework in Jupyter Notebooks on topics ranging from data cleaning and feature extraction to machine learning models.• Assisted students with hard to grasp technical concepts and how to approach novel datasets to extract insights.• Taught classes on building interactive visualizations using JavaScript.

Austin, Texas Area

• Worked with the OHDSI group to further develop Achilles: a visualization platform for health data• Created, graded, and assisted students with homework projects involving prediction and inference of healthcare data (MIMIC and DE-SynPuf)• Taught classes on interactive visualization using JavaScript (D3.js)

Greater Seattle Area

• Built a dashboard to display real-time ad impressions data and developed ad prediction models using Spark.

Austin, Texas Area

• Built machine learning agents as part of a cognitive cloud platform.

Austin, Texas Area

Researched ways to apply data mining to the healthcare industry.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Provided statistical research support to leading economists to value damages in multimillion dollar litigation cases; recognized as being in top 10% of all research associates.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Made buy/sell recommendations on corporate bonds.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science, 4.00

Activities and Societies: Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory (http://www.ideal.ece.utexas.edu/)• Emphasis on machine.

Bootcamp, Deep Reinforcement Learning

Two-day long bootcamp that taught the foundations of Deep RL through a mixture of lectures and hands-on lab sessions. Homepage.

Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree, Computer Science

• Was accepted into second ever cohort (November 2016). • Have completed projects in computer vision, deep learning, sensor fusion, path.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics; Minor In Mathematics, 3.7

• Focused studies on econometrics • Passed CFA Level 1