Daniel Blackburn

Experience

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  University of Washington

  Sept 2008 - Dec 2015

  Research Assistant

  Member of the ATLAS experimental collaboration at CERN.The ATLAS experiment can only write 0.0015% of its collision events to permanent storage. Triggers are created to select the most important physics events and to permanently discard the less "interesting" events, but what if there's new physics hiding in the discarded 99.9985% of data? My PhD work focused on optimizing triggers that are sensitive to new physics signatures and analyzing data collected by these triggers.

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  Marchex

  Jan 2017 - Nov 2018

  Data Scientist

  I owned projects end-to-end, including development of business case, solution design, and implementation. My projects included:- Digital signal processing to identify recorded audio and classify it as IVR, hold-time play files, or voicemail recordings.- Built machine learned models that classify conversations and detect intents of (imperfectly) transcribed consumer telephone calls.- Developed front-end visualization techniques to represent the models that I built.- Built demos of customer service chat assist tools and fully automated chat bots.Awarded Rising Star award in 2017.Project leader of winning team in Marchex's 2018 Hack Week. Show less

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  Globant

  Dec 2018 - Apr 2020

  Data Scientist