Rob Lindgren

Rob Lindgren

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    SWE-ML Capital One | MSCS Georgia Tech

  • Education

    • State University of New York Empire State College

      2019 - 2021

      Courses:- Real Analysis- Object-oriented programming: Java

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

      2021 - 2023
      Master of Science - MS Computer Science

      Activities and Societies: Research Assistant in the Design & Intelligence Lab Courses:- Artificial Intelligence- Machine Learning- Network Science- High Performance Computer Architecture- High Performance Computing (algorithms)- Graduate Intro to Operating Systems- Network Science- Graduate Intro to Algorithms- Software Development Process

    • Temple University

      2012 - 2017
      Bachelor's degree Philosophy

      Courses:- Philosophy of Science- Philosophy of Mind- Independent Study: Game Theory and the Social Contract

    • Temple University

      2012 - 2017
      Bachelor’s Degree Mathematical Economics

      Activities and Societies: Diamond Research Scholar Courses:- Graduate Microeconomics- Graduate Macroeconomics- Numerical Analysis I & II- Differential Equations I- Mathematical Statistics- Intro to Probability Theory- Calculus I-III- Linear Algebra- Mathematical Economics- Game Theory- Economic Theory of Networks

    • Community College of Philadelphia

      2012 - 2012
      Liberal Arts
    • Oakton College

      2021 - 2021

      Courses- Java Data Structures

  • Experience

    • Enroll America

      Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
      Data Fellow

      • Strategically targeted volunteer recruitment using geographic and voter roll data• Planned and executed canvassing events• Reached out to community organizations for partnerships• Received training in data, communications, and community organizing

    • Temple University

      Jun 2015 - Jan 2016

      • Research assistant to Dr. Dai Zusai of the Department of Economics.• Edited the written, mathematical, and theoretical content of “Excess Liquidity Against Predation.” • Formalized a signaling theory of social norms as a mathematical model• Wrote an agent-based simulation in Python• Performed literature review using EBSCO, Web of Science, and ProQuest

      • Research Assistant

        Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
      • Diamond Research Scholar

        Jun 2015 - Dec 2015
    • Abt Global

      Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
      Research Assistant

      • Reviewed data submissions from 22 communities to ensure accuracy and usability in the 2017 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report, which US Department of Housing and Urban Development sends to Congress • Screened abstracts for education research literature review using Abstackr• Developed data-scraping tool in VBA that collects data on previous project proposals from company website

    • The Clearing House

      Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
      Research Analyst
    • Bank Policy Institute

      Jul 2018 - Aug 2021
      Research Analyst

      Formerly The Clearing House.• Supported the research of BPI economists with data analysis, munging, wrangling and visualization• Designed and built a survey, data pipeline, and dashboard to supply geographic and time series data onCOVID-19 impacts to executives at 40 member banks during the first six months of the pandemic• Built tools for automatically extracting, cleaning, and analyzing data from large regulatory datasets• Developed models of the monetary system, stress test impacts, and other economic phenomena for BPIpublications Show less

    • Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

      May 2022 - Jul 2022
      Research Intern - Machine Learning Group

      • Investigated the use of NLP for macroeconomic forecasting• Refactored model training to run in parallel, achieving 4x speedup• Analyzed the interpretability of transformer, topic, and bag-of-words models

    • Design and Intelligence Lab

      Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
      Research Assistant

      • Measured Jill Watson’s effect on teaching presence using surveys and a randomized controlled trial• Automated performance measurements for Jill Watson's (a NLP-based virtual teaching assistant) intent classifier

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

      Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
      Teaching Assistant - CS 7280 Network Science

      • Answered student questions and wrote assignments on the statistics, topology, and dynamics of networks

    • Capital One

      Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
      Software Engineering Intern - Retail Bank ML Architecture

      • Implemented prototypes of distributed training and hyperparameter tuning on CPU and GPU clusters using open-source tools, enabling training on arbitrarily large datasets• Prototypes will be applied to problems such as identifying sensitive data within company’s data ecosystem and pricing bank products

    • Capital One

      Feb 2024 - now
      Software Engineer - Machine Learning

      Building Generative AI tools for software engineering and data science

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Rob Lindgren
      Diamond Scholar Research Grant Temple University May 2015 Used signaling theory and economic game theory to model the development of social norms.
    • Awarded to Rob Lindgren
      National Collegiate Research Conference Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association Dec 2014 Presented "The Limits of Moral Discourse in a Fractured World: Religion, War, and Terror," in which I argued that moral discourse is a form of coercion that exists on a continuum of coercive activities including politics, criminal justice, war, and terrorism.
    • Awarded to Rob Lindgren
      Temple University Undergraduate Research Forum Temple University Apr 2014 Presented "How Computationalism Withstands the Chinese Room", an analysis of the computationalist theory of mind, John Searle's "Chinese Room" reply, and the ensuing objections to the Chinese Room.
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Call Center Volunteer

      Issued by Enroll America on Jan 2014
      Enroll AmericaAssociated with Rob Lindgren