Miriam Friedel is a Senior Director of ML Engineering at the Capital One Center for Machine Learning, where she leads a team of engineers and data scientists building tools and solutions to solve ML problems across the enterprise. Prior to Capital One, she was Head of Data Science at Skafos, an eCommerce start-up based in Charlottesville, VA. She has spent over fifteen years in scientific and technical fields spanning theoretical physics, software engineering, transportation, neuroscience, management consulting, and machine learning. Miriam received her ScB in Physics from Brown University and her PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a co-author on more than fifteen peer-reviewed articles.
