Welcome!
My name is Rylan Schaeffer, and I work at
Uber Technologies as a Data
Scientist since October 2018. It's generally
advisable
to share a picture of oneself so that others will know what one
looks like. Before joining Uber, I:
- earned my Master of Research
in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London
under Dr. Stephen Fleming on
metacognition, where Julius Kunze,
Louis Kirsch and I started
UCL's Artificial Intelligence Journal Club that featured 25 speakers in 9 months
from DeepMind, OpenAI, Uber AI Labs, Toronto, MILA, Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton,
Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and other institutions.
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conducted research on applying supervised deep learning to DNA
sequencing as an intern at
Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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earned two BS degrees at UC Davis
in computer science engineering and statistics,
where I received the UC Davis Computer Science Department's 2016 Outstanding Senior Award
for teaching three undergraduate courses and for organizing and co-hosting over a dozen faculty talks aimed at
bridging the divide between undergraduates and professors. I intially started in biomedical engineering,
switched to business, and then pursued a major of my own creation
aimed at studying persuasion and motivation before choosing CSE and Stats.
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served as CFO and COO of ASUCD (overseeing a $12
million annual operating budget and 20+ units) and as the undergraduate representative on the UC Davis College
of Engineering Dean Recruitment Advisory Committee.
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won the
national Congressional debate tournament in high school.
