Ethan [Nelson] Lyon

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Realtime Fraud Detection API

End-to-end ML model for realtime fraud detection and prevention at NRG Energy — a first of its kind for the company. Saved over $10MM annually. Recognized with the NRG Innovation "Game Changer" Award out of 300 nominees.

PythonMachine LearningPySparkAzure DevOps
2022–2025

Novel time-series Bayesian model for predicting health outcomes in students using mobile sensor data. Published at NeurIPS 2020 and presented at EMBC 2021.

PythonRBayesian ModelingTime Series
2020–2021
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Auto Flight Stabilization for Rockets

Collaborated with mechanical engineers to program a control system on a Linux embedded device to actively stabilize the flight path of a rocket.

Embedded SystemsLinuxControl Systems
2017–2018
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Rakuten Inc. — Software Engineer & Data Science Intern

Worked on data science projects at Rakuten Inc. (Tokyo) spanning fraud detection, prophet forecasting, and budget automation.

PythonData ScienceFraud DetectionTokyo
2018
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VR Tactile Feedback Device

Research at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Created a device to provide more realistic tactile feedback in virtual reality using Arduino.

ArduinoHardwareVR
2017

publications


2021 "Health Label and Behavioral Feature Prediction Using Bayesian Hierarchical Vector Autoregression Models" ↗

EMBC, published and presented November 2021

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2020 "Bayesian Hierarchical Vector Autoregression Models for Health Label and Mobile Sensor-based Behavioral Feature Prediction"

NeurIPS / Machine Learning for Mobile Health