Provides a language to express complex, composable features on top of relational time-varying data, an efficient multithreaded engine to compute these features at particular points in time (scalable to clusters using Dask or PySpark), and algorithms for automatically generating the list of features (e.g. Deep Feature Synthesis). I was the first user, a lead developer since 2016, and helped in its transition from closed to open source in 2017.

Recognition: Most popular feature engineering library on Github with over 2400 stars as of November 2018. Stack Overflow tag.

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• Multi-year effort to deploy a system at Accenture that augments project managers by predicting the degree to which projects' future metrics will be on target.
• Developed deployment-focused machine learning workflow that translated to many other projects at Feature Labs.
• Succesfully deployed, continually tested, and periodically updated by Accenture engineers since September 2018.
• Knowledge transfer of necessary machine learning concepts and skills to novice engineers at Accenture Bangalore.
• One of first machine learning projects actually used internally at Accenture.

Recognition: Published in IEEE Big Data 2018. Deployed at Accenture.

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D3M (Data-Driven Discovery of Models) is a multiyear 25+MM project/competition. TA2 systems automatically solve image, audio, text, tabular, relational, time-series, graph, recommendation, and other data science problems. They also interface with TA1 components (data science primitives) and TA3 systems (UIs). Our entry used open-source tools we developed such as [GET LINKS] MLBlocks (automatic pipeline generation), Featuretools (feature engineering system), and BTB (copula-based hyperparameter optimizer). We consistently handled all dataset types. I contributed heavily to our handling of image, text, relational, time-series, graph, & recommendation problems, and integrating with TA1 primitives. Note: system not public. Link redirects to D3M Gitlab page.

Recognition: Consistently in top 2 at integration events, depending on metric, while I was a member

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D3M (Data-Driven Discovery of Models) is a multiyear 25+MM project/competition. TA1 primitives are individual data science components that can be accessed by TA2 and TA3 systems. I was the lead developer of our TA1 entries, including a primitive for applying Featuretools and Random Forest-based feature selection. I also helped debug JPL's Scikit-Learn (CHECK SPELLING) primitives.

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Recurrent neural networks trained on rap lyrics. Used a novel method incorporating word pronunciations to embed rhyme schemes. See Blog tab for more details [NEED TOP ADD LINKS TO THESE]

Recognition: AI Grant Finalist

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High-level API to apply deep learning to tabular data. incorporates cutoff times to preserve label leakage. Automatically embeds sparse categorical variables into a dense numeric representation. Parameterized architecture allows interoperability with Keras. Several demos available here.

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This is inspired by the MIT Media Lab Open Agriculture Project, and specifically a low-cost version discussed on an associate forum. I use several devices (such as a Raspberry Pi) to measure and control variables like temperature & humidity. Eventually I want to see how many variables I can automate and control.

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Applies Featuretools to cybersecurity dataset to build features and predict malicious web traffic in advance

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Reminiscent of one late, great jazz saxophonist, this project allows anyone (including machines) to improvise over data. It includes a novel language to express prediction problems over datasets, and an interpreter to convert those problems into code. In my thesis, I used an early version of Featuretools in combination with Scikit-Learn to automatcally generate and solve thousands of these problems. While I am no longer actively contributing work is ongoing with current students in the MIT Data-to-AI lab. Note that Github link is the most recent repository, which was heavily refactored from my original work and thus does not show my contributions directly. Please click the card to see the published paper.

Recognition: Published in IEEE DSAA 2016

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Recommender system to learn and suggest meaningful prediction problems from arbitrary datasets. I developed a system that translate Trane problems into human-readable sentences, and a UI that allows humans to rank randomly generated problems based on how meaningful they think they are. Pernican uses these rankings as labeled data and generates features from each dataset. Features include statistical information about the dataset, as well as semantic clusters using Word2Vec topic models on the names of columns. It also generates an exhaustive list of possible prediction problems using a subset Trane. This is nontrivial because datasets have different numbers of columns and different numbers of possible prediction problems. Finally, the system uses both implicit low-rank matrix features as well as explicit extracted features to rank each possible prediction problem and return an ordered list. Users can provide feedback and the system will update its internal model. Note: project showed promising early results but needed more data to reach strong conclusions. Note: url not provided because project is not currently public

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Implemented a theoretically near-optimal online algorithm in Julia and Python to predict unknown values in a matrix according to a low local-trace norm heuristic.

Recognition: Open Source Contribution: first implementation of algorithm

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Using an attention-based recurrent neural network, built a system that gathered recipes and associated comments from websites, isolated refinements within comments and placed them within the referenced location in the recipe text.

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Combined convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks to identify objects in scenes. Discovered a bug in Tensor Flow's data input feeders that did not sort inputs correctly (see these Stack Overflow questions: {GET LINKS}). Note: project unfinished because Tensor Flow lacked implementations for several gradient update steps I needed for backpropagation. I did not have time in the final weeks of the semester to implement these.

Recognition: Open Source Contribution: Tensor Flow

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Built a gesture-controlled FPGA-based quadcopter system, where users hand movements were translated into controls through a Microsoft Kinect and an FPGA and remotely sent to a quadcopter. Video available here.

Recognition: Recognition: MIT EECS Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award for Best Undergraduate Laboratory Project

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System to allow many different courses and educational providers to generate high-level features for their MOOC data and predict student dropout at any phase in the course.

Recognition: Published in IEEE DSAA 2015

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Implementation for Arduino-based agents of this paper for Arduino-based agents.

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Implemented in Bluespec on an FPGA

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Developed a scheduling system to automate wet lab research using operating systems principles to execute multiple tasks concurrently on liquid-handling robots. Developed user-facing front-end for biologists

Recognition: Publication: IWBDA 2014

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