Adam Sadilek
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1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/sadilek
E DUCATION
University of Rochester, NY
• Ph.D. in Computer Science (09 2008 – 06 2012)
M.Sc. in Computer Science (Class of 2010)
– Research Area: artificial intelligence – relational reasoning about human behavior
– Ph.D. Thesis: “Modeling Human Behavior at a Large Scale”
– Advisor: Professor Henry Kautz
Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), Czech Republic
• Bachelor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (10 2004 – 06 2008)
– Senior Thesis: “Computer Model of Human Cognitive Development”
Union College, NY
• Exchange Student (09 2006 – 08 2007)
R ESEARCH & D EVELOPMENT E XPERIENCE
05 2013 – present
Data Scientist,
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05 2012 – 05 2013
CEO & Co-founder, Fount.in
• Led a data analytics startup
06 2012 – 05 2013
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester
• Researched fine-grained and scalable epidemiological models from online social network data
09 2012 – 11 2012
Visiting Researcher,
09 2008 – 06 2012
Research Assistant, University of Rochester
• Developed machine learning of human behavior, relationships, location, and health
• Designed and implemented probabilistic, logical, and unified models
• Applications in computational modeling of social networks, online marketplaces, and epidemiology
08 2011 – 11 2011
Research Intern,
• Automated reasoning about long-term human mobility
02 2011 – 05 2011
Engineering Intern,
• Designed and developed effective machine learning of large-scale models of ads
• Implemented heavy optimizations within MapReduce framework
05 2010 – 08 2010
Research & Development Intern,
Research Labs
• Developed novel approaches to automated item classification on a massive scale
(90M regular customers trading 250M items at any given time)
• Job parallelization in MapReduce framework
03 2007 – 12 2008
Linux Kernel and GCC Developer, University of Rochester and Union College
• Added custom system calls, scheduling policies, and memory management strategies to Linux
• Implemented numerous code-optimizing extensions for the GNU C Compiler
03 2007 – 06 2008
Summer Researcher, Union College and CTU
• Researched and developed a model of human cognitive development
Particle Accelerator Developer, Union College, Physics Department
01 – 07 2007
• Designed and implemented a remote control and monitoring system with a web interface
09 2006 – 07 2007
IT Consultant, Union College, Information Technology Services
• Analyzed and solved hardware and software problems, developed web applications
Web Magazine Editor,
07 – 09 2004
• Researched and wrote information technology articles and guides
T EACHING E XPERIENCE
01 2012 – 05 2013
Research Advisor, University of Rochester
• Advise undergraduate and graduate students on their thesis projects in systems development and machine
learning
• Hold bi-weekly one-on-one as well as group meetings
07 2009 – 08 2011
Instructor of “Build a Mobile Robot”, University of Rochester
• Designed and taught a hands-on course in robotics
01 2009 – 05 2010
Teaching Assistant, University of Rochester
• Participated in teaching a computational complexity course, and intensive courses on cooperative problem
solving and immersion to research
• Specifically nominated for the position by the instructor
S ELECTED S KILLS
Experienced in developing machine learning applications, web apps, and visualization of the results.
C, C++, Java, Python, MapReduce, Matlab, R, C#, Web 2.0 – proficient, numerous deployed projects
CouchDB, SQL, .NET, Lisp, Ruby, assembly language, shell scripts – experienced
3D modeling, 2D graphics, LATEX, Internet protocols and standards – thorough understanding
English – fluent
Czech – native
P UBLICATIONS
See Google Scholar page at http://goo.gl/LCHFS
German – basic
AWARDS
Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (2012)
Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2012)
Best Overall Presentation, Research & Creativity Symposium @ RIT (2012)
University of Rochester Scholarship & Assistantship (2008 – present)
Scholarship
Czech Technical University in Prague Academic Merit Scholarship (2004 – 2008)
& Open Society Prague Fellowship
Czech Technical University in Prague Outstanding Academic Results Fellowship
Union College Davenport Research Fellowship
Czech Republic Government Fellowship
P ROFESSIONAL S ERVICE
Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (2013)
Program Committee, AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (2013)
Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2011, 2012)
Reviewer, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2011)
P ROFESSIONAL M EMBERSHIPS
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)