Sean Wade

Experienced machine learning engineer and scientist. I love solving complex problems and taking algorithms all the way from research to production. Currently creating the future of personalized health. Check out my resume for more details.

Want to connect? Feel free to reach out at hello@seanwade.com

Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Data Scientist
Apple
Dec 2019 - Current
  • Led cross-functional team in developing, shipping and maintaining core on-device ML algorithms to users:
    • Meal logging tool with food image classification and LLM nutrition feedback
    • Personalized workout recommender system using a multi objective loss function and online learning
    • Unsupervised walk detection algorithm from steps data
    • Contextual notifications engine using routine identification (commute to work, typical workout time, etc)
  • Evaluated performance of ML models with focus on safety, robustness and privacy and efficacy communicated tradeoffs to partners
  • Architected data schema and privacy preserving data collection framework for launch of multiple health related programs and research studies (Lumihealth, Heartline, Attain)
  • Created application for labeling health data to create datasets and provide human feedback for models
  • Built data pipelines to process high volumes of medical claims data and health sensor data
  • Designed research studies and experiments to study impact of digital interventions and models on hypertension, diabetes, asthma, MCI and atrial fibrillation
AI Platform Engineer Intern
Microsoft
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
  • Created tools to improve deploying, evaluating, and retraining ML models on Azure
  • Extended Azure SDK to support MLflow
Machine Learning Resident
Disney
Jan 2018 - May 2018
  • Developed recommender system for rides/attractions in Disney World Park app
  • Created realtime pipelines and dashboards to monitor performance
Computer Vision Engineer
Loveland Innovations
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
  • Used drone imaging and photogametry to construct 3D models of buildings
  • Built convolutional neural network to identify and classify roof damage
Research
Brigham Young University
Master of Science, Computer Science
Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics
December 2017

Researched synthetic cancer cell image generation using conditional adversarial neural networks and wrote a python library to distribute it. Created novel methods for representing medical claims history with vector embeddings.

Skills
Python, Swift, SQL, C++ LLM post training, fine tuning and RLHF Deep learning (PyTorch, JAX) Distributed systems (Spark, Hadoop, etc) Medical claims and sensor data CV algorithms and tools (OpenCV, PCL) Privacy preserving ML Numerical methods and mathematical modeling