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I am an accomplished applied Machine Learning and AI Engineer with a PhD in Information Science. Throughout my career, I've developed computing solutions and led initiatives impacting millions of customers daily, improving product accuracy and user efficiency. I have a passion for leveraging data science to solve complex problems and enhance user experiences. With extensive experience in designing AI platforms, fine-tuning large language models, and managing cross-functional projects, I continually strive to innovate and push the boundaries of technology. I enjoy collaborating with diverse teams and am eager to contribute my expertise as a Staff Data Scientist.…I am an accomplished applied Machine Learning and AI Engineer with a PhD in Information Science. Throughout my career, I've developed computing solutions and led initiatives impacting millions of customers daily, improving product accuracy and user efficiency. I have a passion for leveraging data science to solve complex problems and enhance user experiences. With extensive experience in designing AI platforms, fine-tuning large language models, and managing cross-functional projects, I continually strive to innovate and push the boundaries of technology. I enjoy collaborating with diverse teams and am eager to contribute my expertise as a Staff Data Scientist.

Michael V. Yudelson

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I am an accomplished applied Machine Learning and AI Engineer with a PhD in Information Science. Throughout my career, I've developed computing solutions and led initiatives impacting millions of customers daily, improving product accuracy and user efficiency. I have a passion for leveraging data science to solve complex problems and enhance user experiences. With extensive experience in designing AI platforms, fine-tuning large language models, and managing cross-functional projects, I continually strive to innovate and push the boundaries of technology. I enjoy collaborating with diverse teams and am eager to contribute my expertise as a Staff Data Scientist.…I am an accomplished applied Machine Learning and AI Engineer with a PhD in Information Science. Throughout my career, I've developed computing solutions and led initiatives impacting millions of customers daily, improving product accuracy and user efficiency. I have a passion for leveraging data science to solve complex problems and enhance user experiences. With extensive experience in designing AI platforms, fine-tuning large language models, and managing cross-functional projects, I continually strive to innovate and push the boundaries of technology. I enjoy collaborating with diverse teams and am eager to contribute my expertise as a Staff Data Scientist.

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I am an accomplished applied Machine Learning and AI Engineer with a PhD in Information Science. Throughout my career, I’ve developed computing solutions and led initiatives impacting millions of customers daily, improving product accuracy and user efficiency. I have a passion for leveraging data science to solve complex problems and enhance user experiences.

With extensive experience in designing AI platforms, fine-tuning large language models, and managing cross-functional projects, I continually strive to innovate and push the boundaries of technology. I enjoy collaborating with diverse teams and am eager to contribute my expertise as a Staff Data Scientist.

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English

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Work Experience

Founder, Artificial Intelligence and Audiovisual Signal Processing Platform Development at Akyn Automatica Consulting, LLC

January 1, 2023 - Present

Designed a bespoke cloud infrastructure and pipeline raising the throughput of a social media publishing group 5-fold and set up an asset management process for publication preparation. Built a multi-platform desktop application used by 20 journalists for audio-video processing.

Staff Data Scientist, Learning Sciences and Data Science at Chegg, Inc.

January 31, 2025 - July 26, 2025

Initiated and led retrieval-augmented generation prompt development covering 20+ feature-engineering experiments and leveraging 5 business logic checks. Spearheaded fine-tuning a Gen AI model for extracting expressions boosting service component’s accuracy by 11%.

Principal ML/AI Engineer, AI and Data Science at BrainPOP, Inc.

June 30, 2022 - July 26, 2025

Led product development of ML/AI data infrastructure for a suite of capabilities targeting an NLP answer scoring as one of only two ML engineers in the company.

Senior Research Scientist/Senior Software Developer, ACTNext/Emerging Technologies at ACT, Inc.

April 30, 2021 - July 26, 2025

Instrumented and managed a diagnostic model project improving user experience for 100,000+ students solving 3.3M problems a month, adapted the model for 2 external vendors. Devised a model-selecting method that became part of 1 granted U.S. patent.

Project Scientist, Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University

May 31, 2017 - July 26, 2025

Coordinated efforts on scaling a suite of affect detectors to serve up to 60 million students. Co-authored a man-machine tutoring method featured in 1 publication with 20 citations.

Research Scientist at Carnegie Learning, Inc.

January 31, 2016 - July 26, 2025

Optimized a student model serving 0.5 million students a year to save 37% of the in-app time. Co-authored and presented 10 publications to promote the company's reputation in the field.

Post-doctoral Fellow, Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University

February 28, 2013 - July 26, 2025

Created and published a novel model of student learning (publication received 600+ citations). Developed an industry-first open-source tool to fit Bayesian models on up to 1 billion records.