Dr. Leonard Apeltsin is a research fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from UCSF and a BS in Biology and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Leonard was a Senior Data Scientist & Engineering Lead at Primer AI, a machine learning company that specializes in using advanced Natural Language Processing Techniques to analyze terabytes of unstructured text data. As a founding team-member, Leonard helped expand the Primer AI team from four employees to over 80 people. Outside of Data Science and ML, Leonard enjoys scuba diving, salsa dancing, and making short documentary films.
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