Laszlo Korsos

Head of Data Science

2024 - Current

Attentive drives 11 figures of annual revenue for online brands. 🚀 You've almost certainly interacted with us, but haven't known it. 😎 We're building big things in data and AI. Come join us! 📈

Advisor

2020

Leveraging artificial intelligence in upstream energy

Co-Founder, President

2023 - 2023

Co-Founder, CEO

2019 - 2023

HeadRace is the marketplace for recruiting services. We make it easier for recruiters to start their own boutiques and for employers to find the best recruiters at the best prices - Bootstrapped as a side-hustle to $1M in revenue. - Raised $6M from Greylock, Susa Ventures, and Breyer Capital

SVP of Analytics

2021 - 2021

Built and led data analytics for the entire business - Product, Engineering, Performance Marketing, Brand Marketing, and Sales.

Senior Director, Head of Marketplace & Pricing Data Science

2019 - 2019

Hired and led the team responsible for Flexport's pricing and optimization ML Eng technology.

Co-Founder of Marketplace Org & Founder of Marketplace Data Science

2014 - 2017

Founded, built, and led the teams behind much of Uber's core algo and marketplace tech including Surge Pricing, matching optimization, Uber Pool (pricing, matching), Uber Eats (pricing, matching), forecasting, and outlier/anomaly detection. - Uber's first data scientist in finance - Promoted within 2 months of being hired to start/lead the company’s central applied science team - economics, statistics, operations research, ML in the core products - Developed the first UberPool matching/routing algorithms - Ran the algorithmic development for Surge/Dynamic Pricing - Built Uber's first demand curve models - Built the first anomaly detection algorithms built into the firm's data centers - Hired all the Product & Data leadership (Director+) - Hired almost every Senior+ data scientist and product manager in the Marketplace Org - Recruited top professors from Columbia, Yale, Cornell, and UCLA to join Uber full-time and co-develop our quantitative and data technology

Associate - Fixed Income Sales & Trading

2013 - 2014

First full-time job - Fixed Income Deal Structuring & Trading - Structured interest rate derivative deals for financial institutions and corporate clients - Authored Goldman’s reports on US Treasury Futures, Short-Term Interest Rates, Assets & Liabilities of Commercial Banks, US Treasury Auction Allotments, and Canadian Interest Rates - Implemented the firm’s advanced Bayesian statistical learning methods used for dynamically changing investment positioning

Lecturer/Consultant

2011 - 2012

Taught econometrics, statistics, and machine learning classes to traders, portfolio managers, and new-hires while in grad school

Summer Quant Analyst

2009 - 2010

Hyde Park Portfolio Team (Quant investment management) - Rebuilt the firm's entire $1B quant investing engine while in grad school - Built the firm’s first super-computer hardware (ranked in the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers at the time)

Summer Analyst

2007 - 2007

Corporate Advisory (IB/M&A) Team - Special Situations/Structuring - Built the financing models for the now ubiquitous digital & 3D cinema equipment in AMC, Cinemark, and Regal Cinemas