Rick Barber

Angel Investor

2022 - Current

Chief Technology Officer, Cofounder

2020

Generative AI for brands and marketers

Cofounder

2015 - 2018

Instructor

2017 - 2018

Teaching CS 361 Probability and Statistics for CS

Data science & Chief of Staff

2014 - 2015

Research Assistant

2014 - 2014

Automatic detection of cohorts using machine learning on claims, lab, drug, and clinical text data. Did analyses of feature selection algorithms to uncover the relative value of claims, lab, drug, and EHR data. Used complex network analysis to uncover novel subtype clusters of autism and other diseases

Data scientist

2013 - 2013

Programmed some things that I can't say much about. Got to see the other side of the table, listen to a few pitches, and see how the sausage is made, as well.

Merchant data team intern

2012 - 2012

Built a patentable system to scrape the web and used natural language processing to identify restaurants that would be opening in the future. Published a paper with the larger team on the automatic allocation of crowd computing in data cleaning stacks.

Researcher - InfoLab

2011 - 2012

Did research in social and information network analysis under Prof Jure Leskovec. Did work on automatically classifying entities into an ontology

Researcher - Data Mining Research Group

2010 - 2011

Worked on web structure mining and social/information network analysis under Prof Jiawei Han. Published 4 papers on finding structure in unstructured web data on the individual page level and separately with a system leveraging the site-wide link structure to uncover entities. Published a paper on link formation in networks, specifically predicting which academic researchers would co-author papers together in the future.

Research Assistant

2009 - 2010

Programming for the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets. Feature detection and optimization of triangular surface meshes in C++.