Summary
Eric R is a Machine Learning Scientist III with 11 years of experience building production-ready ML systems across e-commerce, healthcare, insurance, psychology, and customer service domains. Currently at Expedia Group, he focuses on recommendation and personalization, having previously built production models in survival analysis, NLP, and computer vision for enterprise products. He pairs strong academic foundations in mathematics, statistics, and computer science from UT Austin with hands-on engineering—shipping APIs and full-stack features earlier in his career. Known for tackling challenging, interdisciplinary problems, he blends research-style representation learning (including psychometrics) with practical deployment experience. Colleagues value his curiosity, collaborative approach, and drive to turn novel ML techniques into measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Statistics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish, English