Wiley Baskin Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Victoria, Texas, United States

• Created machine learning algorithm that captures comments from stock investing websites and analyses them based on a variety of the post’s features to see if they have any predictive ability for stock price.
• Initial results have yielded moderate, but consistent, market beating success.
• For more information and proof of concept, visit www.wileyrbaskin.com.

North Carolina, United States

• Used reinforced learning algorithms to find a redirection practice for walking in virtual reality that outperforms the current gold standard, steer-to-center.
• Applied real world paths to the reinforced learning algorithm to test if human guidance could improve the RL models.
• Statistically analyzed the results of the reinforced paths and the steer-to-center paths to conclude if human expert training really improved results and found a marginal increase in model improvement.

Marble Falls, Texas, United States

• Managed a team of 15 full time counselors from 5 different nations.
• Lowered department expenses by 15% by creating a supply reclaim procedure and teaching myself how to repair and maintain equipment.
• Focused on clear communication within team and with senior management to assure the achievement of both individual and organizational goals.
• Improved the department's popularity ranking from 12th to the top three both summers I was director (the highest rankings ever for Fine Arts).