Biography
Ryan Wesslen is a machine learning engineer at Explosion 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. He is also an associate graduate faculty member in UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science. 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.
Interests
- Human-computer interaction
- Natural language processing
- Visual analytics
- Cognitive science
- Information visualization
Education
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PhD in Computing & Information Systems, 2021
UNC Charlotte
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MS in Data Science & Business Analytics, 2016
UNC Charlotte
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MA in Economics, 2011
New York University
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MS in Financial Mathematics, 2009
NC State University
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BA in Economics, 2007
UNC Chapel Hill
