Ryan Wesslen

Education: Ph.D. Computing and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte; M.A. Economics, New York University; M.S. Financial Mathematics, NC State; M.S. Data Science and Business Analytics, UNC Charlotte

Courses Taught:

Visual Analytics DSBA 5122/HCIP 5122; Text Mining and Information Retrieval DSBA 6166; Special Topics: Bayesian Statistics DSBA 6010

Biography:
Ryan Wesslen is a machine learning engineer at ExplosionAI where he works on Prodigy, a modern annotation tool for creating training data for machine learning models. Ryan’s academic research focuses on human-centered artificial intelligence to investigate ways human-computer interaction and data visualizations can be combined with machine learning and natural language processing. Ryan previously led the Natural Language Processing (NLP) team in Bank of America’s Chief Data Scientist Organization and has additional experience in marketing and credit risk management, analytics, and modeling.

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