Maksim Tsvetovat
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtsvetov
Twitter: maksim2042
Washington, DC
Member since December 21, 2015
- About
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| Credentials | None |
| 1995 University of Minnesota , BS , Computer Science / Psychology |
| 1999 University of Minnesota , MS , Computer Science |
| 2005 Carnegie Mellon University , PhD , Computer Science / Data Science |
Entrepreneur
Published best-selling book on data science and over 50 scientific papers
Built first mobile health app, recommendation engine, and collaborative buying applications.
Released applications of cancer, heart attack, rare disease and chronic pain patients.
I want to change the world.
Lyft, Zappos, AirBnB
Balancing family life with building a startup
Losing focus and trying to do too much too soon; not learning from mistakes.
Abandoning code that represents 3 years of work is painful, but needs to be done. Assumptions change, requirements change, lessons must be learned and internalized.
I am driven by the challenge of the almost-impossible goal
In 1994, a robot my team built for $500 won 2nd place in a competition dominated by well-funded teams with million-dollar budgets. The next year, I joined a team the created GroupLens, world's first recommendation engine, a technology that eventually sparked the AI revolution we are witnessing now.
In 1999, confronted with a challenge of mental illness in the family, I created one of the first mobile health applications on Palm Pilot platform. By tracking changes in mood and affect many times per day and analyzing the resulting data, we were able to actively prevent diesease episodes and improve quality of life.
After 9/11, I have turned my attention to problems of counter-terrorism and national security, and have created a computational model of terrorist recruiting still in use in the Intelligence Community.
In 2005, I have received my Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon and went on to teach at George Mason University, while continuing work on national security issues.
In 2011, I have published a book on analysis of social networks and social media that became a best-seller and remained on Amazon's top-100 technical books list for over 2 years.
About a year ago I realized that one of my next challenges will be to rebuild myself.
In the following 6 months, I have gone from a totally inactive lifestyle to finishing a triathlon, in process learning, testing and expanding my own physical and mental limits, and realizing how much of a work-in-progress I am. Next stop -- running a marathon.
