Matthew Bond

Location

Los Angeles, CA
Education
    University of Hawaii at Manoa
    August 2014 - May 2020
    degree
    Ph.D
    major
    Ecology
    Cornell University
Work Experience
    Insight Data Science
    Data Science Fellow
    Los Angeles, CA, US
    May 2020 - July 2020
    company
    Insight Data Science
    title
    Data Science Fellow
    overview
    - Used machine learning to make a web app that eliminates the health risks, carbon footprint, and cost of international travel by recommending local attractions that are similar to international destinations - Leveraged NLP pattern detection over large datasets (7 million travel records and 170,000 reviews from a travel review website) scraped and cleaned in Python using selenium and beautiful soup - Optimized recommender algorithm using topic modeling and cosine similarity in scikit-learn and nltk, improving MAP@10 by 200% and coverage by 600% compared to popularity baseline - Engineered a front-end website with flask, HTML, and Bootstrap on AWS: http://dataispower.me
    University of Hawaii
    Quantitative Graduate Researcher
    Honolulu, HI, US
    August 2014 - May 2020
    University of Hawaii
    Research Fellow
    Dunedin, OTA, NZ
    June 2016 - August 2016