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Javad Jomehpour Chahar Aman

Dallas,TX

Summary

  • Proficient in designing and implementing advanced ML models, including predictive analytics, time series forecasting, and deep learning techniques, to solve complex business problems and deliver actionable insights.
  • Skilled in taking projects from ideation and problem identification to production deployment, including data pipeline creation, model development, optimization, deployment, and ensuring alignment with business objectives

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Data Scientist II

Caterpillar
04.2024 - Current

End-to-End ML Pipeline Development: Designed and implemented scalable data pipelines using Azure and AWS, integrating CI/CD workflows to streamline data science projects from ideation to production.

  • Predictive Modeling and Forecasting: Developed advanced time series models to forecast revenue and financial metrics, enabling data-driven decision-making and improving forecasting accuracy.
  • Architectural Design and Deployment: Led the creation of robust, cloud-based architectures for machine learning projects, ensuring reliability, scalability, and seamless integration with business operations.
  • Generative AI Initiatives: Pioneered the adoption of Generative AI within the finance department, helping the team leverage advanced AI capabilities to drive innovation and efficiency in financial forecasting and analysis.

Research Assistant/Data Scientist

Southern Methodist University
01.2019 - 03.2023
  • Big Data Analytics: Conducted data analysis on a large dataset of smartphone gps data using Python to detect movement patterns of Dallas, TX residents post-COVID-19, resulting in the identification and visualization of significant behavior changes due to the pandemic
  • Classification and Clustering: Utilized logistic regression and XGBoost models and clustering models (k-means and DBSCAN) to investigate nonlinear relationships of built environment attributes and users’ mobility patterns, leading to prediction of the trip destination of users with a high degree of accuracy
  • Deep Learning: Scraped over 60,000 tweets and App reviews related to E-scooters and employed topic modeling and CNN architecture with TensorFlow and Keras to characterize public opinion toward services, uncovering key topics and sentiments around E-scooter services
  • Leadership: Served as the vice president of the Graduate Students Council of Lyle Engineering Departments, leading and managing a team of students to execute initiatives and projects related to the engineering department

Mobility Data Scientist

High Street Consulting
01.2022 - 05.2022
  • Communications: Collaborated with a team of six engineers and communicated with clients to identify the projects’ scope, needs, and deadlines and ensure their satisfaction with the outcomes
  • Machine Learning: Developed and tested a predictive model (Random Forest) for traffic speed limit data to ease data collection efforts
  • Interactive Dashboard: Analyzed Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) travel monitoring outputs (over 35 million row datasets) and utilized interactive dashboards and visualizations (Tableau and Power BI) to reveal spatio-temporal patterns in trucks traffic volume

Education

Ph.D. - Transportation Engineering, Minor in Data Science

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX
04-2023

Applied Machine Learning Program - undefined

Columbia University
New York, NY
12.2022

Skills

    Programming Languages: Python (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, Matplotlib), R

    Spatial Analysis: ArcGIS Pro, AGOL, QGIS

    Business Intelligence Tools: Power BI, Tableau

    Generative AI: LLMs such as GPT and BERT; Hugging Face, and API integrations

    Version Control Systems: Git, GitHub

    Database Management: Snowflake (SQL, NoSQL)

Peerreviewedpublications

  • Aman, J.J.C., Smith-Colin, J., 2022, Application of Crowdsourced Data to Infer User Satisfaction with Mobility as a Service (MaaS), Journal of Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198222001324
  • Aman, J.J.C., Smith-Colin, J., Zhang, W., 2021, Listen to E-Scooter Riders: Mining Factors of Rider Satisfaction from App Reviews, Transportation Part D Journal, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920921001589

Timeline

Data Scientist II

Caterpillar
04.2024 - Current

Mobility Data Scientist

High Street Consulting
01.2022 - 05.2022

Research Assistant/Data Scientist

Southern Methodist University
01.2019 - 03.2023

Applied Machine Learning Program - undefined

Columbia University

Ph.D. - Transportation Engineering, Minor in Data Science

Southern Methodist University
Javad Jomehpour Chahar Aman