About Stephen

Stephen Merity is a Computational Science and Engineering master's candidate at the Institute for Applied Computational Science at Harvard.  Stephen's graduate studies center around data science and machine learning.  Prior to Harvard, Stephen worked as a software engineer for Freelancer.com, applying advanced data mining methods, statistical testing and machine learning techniques to increase the overall customer satisfaction and revenue, and as a software engineer for Grok Learning, an educational start-up aimed at teaching programming to high school students in a fun and interactive manner. Stephen has a Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours First Class with University Medal) from the University of Sydney in Australia.

For his personal website, check out Smerity.com.