I am honored to win the Allan L. McCutcheon Award for the best methodology paper in the 43rd conference of Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research in Chicago. Hereby, I would like to highly appreciate all support, motivation and exceptional apportinities I am provided by the Michigan Program in Survey Methodology. A list of award winners can be found here.
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Seasoned statistician and data scientist with 10+ years of combined industry and academic experience in coding, deploying ML models and algorithms with more focus on data fusion, causal inference, anomaly detection, and Bayesian computations using petascale organic data; expert in the design and analysis of complex samples, NN & DL, feature selection, model evaluation, NLP, Monte Carlo simulations, network analysis, A/B testing, uncertainty quantification, time-series analysis, revenue optimization, and responsible AI; author of multiple open-source projects (GitHub) and 40+ research articles published in top tier journals with 1,250+ citations received (GScholar); Strongly passionate about developing scalable methods that establish a unified framework for mitigating fairness and propagating uncertainty when training deep generative models using Bayesian approaches.