Bio:

Juan Pablo leads the data science efforts at Group Nine Media — the no. 1 mobile-first publisher in the U.S and home to category leading brands NowThis, The Dodo, Thrillist, and Seeker. With a deep background in Applied Mathematics and M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University, he strikes the right balance between easy to digest visualizations and computer vision using deep learning. Prior to joining Group Nine, he was a researcher at Columbia University’s Water Center, focusing on modeling rain through Non-Homogeneous Markov chains and deep learning to detect waste disposal facilities from mining activity. He is an active volunteer at DataKind, where he lead a six month project to support StrongMinds, an NGO focused on treating depression in women in Africa. Other experience includes building predictive models for marketing and financial risk.