Summary
Elliot Silva is a Senior Data Scientist at Walmart Global Tech, leading the eCommerce clearance markdown algorithm, with over a decade of experience applying machine learning to healthcare, robotics, retail, and vision-language systems. He is completing an NYU MS in Data Science, building on a foundation from Harvard in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. His work spans anomaly detection, semi-supervised clustering, bidirectional LSTMs, and pre-trained BERT for bias detection, with hands-on experience from Jibo's data collection to improve vision and language understanding. He has contributed to data science in healthcare at Epic and innovation in robotics at Jibo and Wyss, and conducted gaze-contingent display research at Schepens Institute. He is an active educator, tutoring students in SAT/ACT/GMAT/GRE and advanced math, reflecting a knack for turning complex concepts into practical learning. Based in New York, he merges rigorous academic training with production-ready ML systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Applied Mathematics at Harvard University
English, Arabic, Portuguese