Tickr AI Research & Engineering

Sam currently serves as the Vice President of AI & Data Science at Tickr, leading projects & research in forecasting, business planning, generative AI, pricing, causal inference, natural language processing, deep learning, and more. His expertise extends to academia as a Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he applies generative AI & deep learning to tackle complex scientific problems in astrophysics and climate science. Prior to Tickr, Sam was Lead Data Scientist at Market.Space delivering natural language processing and deep learning products. His career also includes working at Salesforce.com, where he was a data scientist on the customer intelligence team. He got his start in machine learning at NASA as an AI Research Associate where he focused on using deep learning techniques for energy forecasting. He holds a Masters in Data Science from UC Berkeley and a Bachelors in Physics from UC Santa Cruz.