Nick Locascio

Deep Learning Consultant

Booth AI

Co-Founder, CEO

Standard Cognition 

I joined Standard AI as employee #7 and wore many hats throughout our unicorn growth cycle. I wrote critical pieces of our algorithms and inference stack, led and grew our Machine Learning Teams, spearheaded our Synthetic Data initiatives, landed 10+ machine learning models into production, and drove key metrics and ml product launches.

Director Of Engineering

Symantec

Built deep learning systems for dynamic cyber threat and insurance modeling.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Published 2 Machine Learning Papers. Founded and lectured MIT's Deep Learning course, 6.S191.

Papers:
[1] High-Risk Breast Lesions: A Machine Learning Model to Predict Pathologic Upgrade and Reduce Unnecessary Surgical Excision
Journal of Radiology '17

[2] Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language with Minimal Domain Knowledge, EMNLP '16

Graduate Researcher

Perch

Developed deep learning computer vision models for early stage fitness technology startup.

Deep Learning Engineer

Pinterest

Worked on Machine Learning Recommendations team building big data prediction models with Hive+Hadoop.

Machine Learning Engineer

Fitbit

I worked on the iOS team doing various feature work.

Software Engineer

Mystery Snap

Mystery Snap was an ephemeral photo sharing iOS app.

Acquired +250,000 users. +3 million photos sent.

Mystery Snap held the #1 spot in the Norway Photo & Video Category for over two weeks.

Founder

Monster Cats

Monster Cats was a 2D action runner iPhone game.

Monster Cats reached #56 on the App Store
for Adventure Games and made the All Games Top 300 the first week of launch.
4.5 Star Rating. +150,000 downloads

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