Colin Mason

Experience

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  Brigham Young University

  Aug 2020 - Aug 2022

  Research assistant lead in charge of developing statistical learning methods for addiction and reinforcement learning neuroscience lab. Primarily used Python, R, PostgreSQL, and Git.• Developed ML system with XGBoost to automate anomaly detection in dopamine signals of rodent brains.• Managed development team in creating Python module to stream rodent movements in virtual environments.• Discovered differences in drug interactions of rodent dopamine signals using linear regression. Published findings in the Journal of Neurochemistry. Show less

  • Computational Neuroscience Research Assistant

    Aug 2019 - Aug 2022

  • Economics Research Assistant

    Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
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  Tealeaf by X Star

  Apr 2021 - Oct 2021

  Data Science Intern

  Junior data scientist who developed data collection and storage system for financial technology natural language processing pipeline. Utilized Python, Docker, PostreSQL, and Bash.• Engineered a Python web scraper to scrape millions of comments and headlines across various media sites.• Constructed PostgreSQL database and streamed over 20 million records for ML training.• Deployed ETL process to Azure Cloud, enabling efficient preparation for deep learning model training.• Conducted comprehensive statistical analysis on data stream and on NLP model performance.• Negotiated with investors to help raise $250,000 in angel funding (5-employee startup). Show less

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  UMortgage

  Feb 2023 - Jun 2023

  Jr. Data Scientist

  Junior data scientist in charge of implementing large language model architecture and prediction modeling on company employee data. Utilized AWS EC2, HuggingFace, Sci-Kit Learn, Colab, and PostgreSQL.• Trained open-source large language model using AWS EC2 Deep Learning environments. Deployed as a natural language querying assistant to aid executives with real-time business decision-making.• Developed an ensemble machine learning model to forecast the performance of loan officers, successfully predicting quarterly target achievement with an accuracy rate of 85%. Show less

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  Rivian

  Dec 2023 - now

  Demand Planner