Josh Ludan
Researcher/Data Scientist with a focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Senior at the University of Pennsylvania studying Networked and Social Systems Engineering, concurrently taking the accelerated data science masters program
Reach me at jludan@seas.upenn.edu
Experience
NLP Researcher - University of Pennsylvania - Part Time
Philadelphia, PA | August 2022 - Present
Conducted research to develop methods for creating highly robust and interpretable systems utilizing large language models
Awarded the Best Practicum Award for 2023 in the Data Science Program at the University of Pennsylvania
Data Science Intern - Farallon Capital Management - Full Time Internship
San Francisco, CA | May 2022 - August 2022
Planned and executed a research project leveraging large language models to gauge the financial sentiment of online communities. The final model notably outperformed all other publicly available financial sentiment models during its evaluation period
VP of Projects - Penn Data Science Group
University of Pennsylvania | January 2021 - Present
Led two semester-long data science consulting projects with different startups and coordinated the club Kaggle team across three competitions
Provided consultation for Flagler Health, assisting in the development of a system to streamline physicians' decision-making for patient procedure eligibility using natural language processing
Consulted for EmployAI to create a system that analyzed sales data to enhance customer acquisition strategies
Research Assistant - Penn Computational Social Science Lab - Part Time
University of Pennsylvania | May 2021 - Present
Collaborated with Homa Hosseinmardi and Prof. Duncan Watts in research applying topic models to understand patterns in American consumption of YouTube content