Shawhin Talebi Ventures LLC

Creating educational content on AI and entrepreneurship. Growing a community of Data Entrepreneurs.

Founder, AI Consultant & Educator

Toyota Financial Services Corporation

• Uncovered and corrected issues in production credit risk model that impacted over 70% of accounts and wrote model monitoring scripts to help avoid future failures
• Redeveloped loan originations model for independent dealers, which resulted in a 50% model performance improvement and provided $2.5 million in realized value to business partner

Data Scientist

The University of Texas at Dallas

• Published open-source methodology to discover optimal EEG bands which led to better characterization of the underlying power spectrum than the more commonly used band boundaries by a factor of 2
• Train over 100 machine learning models which estimated particulate ma]er (PM) concentrations based on a suite of over 300 biometric variables which accurately estimated PM concentrations with high fidelity (r2 = 0.91)
• Led 5 teams focused on deployment of a real-Ime Python-based biometrics application, unveiling immediate insights that were previously inaccessible

Graduate Research Assistant

Palomino Motors

• Analyzed marketing and sales reports to inform inventory acquisition, which resulted in a 50% decrease in average inventory age
• Evaluated costs of lead providers through analysis of lead data and close rates, which led to over $2500 in monthly savings

Business & IT Manager

•      Hired, trained, and led team of 8 SUAAB executive council members, that planned and executed 36 events with over 14,000 in total attendance 
•      Managed and analyzed programming budget of over $216,000 along with attendance reports to inform future campus events

Executive Chairman - Student Union and Activities Advisory Board

•       Orchestrated and implemented 2016 Spring Concert with over 1200 students, 45 volunteers, and 6 outside companies and organizations at the TI Plaza, that is now used as a model for all Spring Concerts
•       Analyzed aggregate student course schedules to predict optimal event times

Music Chairman - Student Union and Activities Advisory Board

Failing my way to success | Data Entrepreneur

Meet Shaw, a data scientist, entrepreneur, researcher, content creator, drummer, and bread enthusiast driven by an insatiable curiosity to understand the world and create better systems.

With a Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Texas at Dallas, Shaw has over 5 years of experience in data science and project management across diverse fields such as biometric research, credit risk, automotive sales, medicine, human performance, marketing, event planning, and content creation.

As a data scientist, Shaw helps teams solve their problems through data-informed solutions while constantly seeking entrepreneurial opportunities to provide value and tackle challenging problems.

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