Edward Pantridge - Cambridge, MA

Hi! I’m Eddie


I am a machine learning engineer and artificial intelligence researcher. I am passionate about the design, implementation, and application of intelligent systems to improve business processes and customer facing products and services.

I strive to produce effective and practical software that makes a positive impact on the lives of the people I work alongside and the general public.
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Work


Swoop Inc.

Machine Learning Engineer - Cambridge, MA
September 2018 - Present

MassMutal

Junior Data Scientist - Amherst, MA
June 2016 - August 2018

Fay Games

Mobile Developer - Amherst, MA
June 2015 - February 2016

VideoLink

Intern - Newtown, MA
January 6th, 2015 - January 20th, 2015

Needham Park and Recreation

Program Director
Summer 2013 and Summer 2015

Education


Masters in Data Science

University of Massachusetts Amherst
September 2016 - May 2018

BA in Computer Science

Hampshire College
September 2012 - May 2016

Teaching

  • CS109 - Introduction to Programming and Open Source
    Hampshire College adjunct professor, S2018
  • CS254 - Genetic Programming
    Hampshire College adjunct professor, S2017

Publications

2018

  • Specialization and Elitism in Lexicase and Tournament Selection
    Edward Pantridge, Thomas Helmuth, Nicholas Freitag McPhee, Lee Spector
    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
  • Plushi: an embeddable, language agnostic, push interpreter
    Edward Pantridge, Lee Spector
    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

2017

  • Improving generalization of evolved programs through automatic simplification
    Thomas Helmuth, Nicholas Freitag McPhee, Edward Pantridge, Lee Spector
    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
  • PyshGP: PushGP in Python
    Edward Pantridge, Lee Spector
    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion
  • On the difficulty of benchmarking inductive program synthesis methods
    Edward Pantridge, Thomas Helmuth, Nicholas Freitag McPhee, Lee Spector
    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion
  • TensorFlow enabled genetic programming
    Kai Staats, Edward Pantridge, Marco Cavaglia, Iurii Milovanov, Arun Aniyan Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion

2016

  • Evolution of Layer Based Neural Networks: Preliminary Report Edward Pantridge, Lee Spector Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

Open Source Contributions

  • Pyshgp - Maintainer
    A PushGP genetic programming framework in python.
  • DEAP - Contributor
    Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python.
  • Metabase - Contributor
    Business intelligence and analytics for everyone in your company.
  • Clojush - Contributor
    A PushGP genetic programming framework in Clojure.

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Python, Scala, Clojure, R, Javascript, SQL, C#, Java
  • Machine Learning Modeling
  • Data Visualization
  • Git version control
  • Native English Speaker