Warren Hearnes Phd Email Address

Vice President, Head of Data Science

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Currently Head of Data Science at Best Buy, helping build an environment of tools, access, standards, and platforms that enable increasing scale, sophistication, and impact of data science across the enterprise. Formerly head of analytics, optimization, & data science @ CDLX where I led a team of 70+ and was responsible for setting and executing strategies to utilize the company's data to full potential. Played integral role propelling CDLX from start-up to multi-billion-dollar public company. Invited speaker, published author, and contributor to two books: "Handbook of Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming" and "Fuzzy Sets in Decision Analysis, Operations Research, and Statistics". My combination of proven leadership and team development experience, published machine learning research, and practical solutions in industry has been extremely valuable over my 30+ year career: ★ With a BS from West Point, our nation's oldest military academy, and service as an officer in the US Army, I've been formally trained in leadership to extract the best out of a diverse team. ★ As a US Army Ranger School graduate, I have been tested in extremely stressful environments. ★ My MS and PhD from Georgia Tech are from the #1-ranked program in the nation. We recognized the potential of machine learning and conducted innovative research for NASA and the National Science Foundation during the early stages of ML's growth in the 1990s. ★ I've organized, motivated, and led analytics and data science teams across industries to solve important business problems in ways that reduced costs, determined "market prices" for goods and services, identified fraud/suspicious activity, used inventory more efficiently, targeted the correct set of customers, predicted actions, and measured risk in accounts or orders. ★ I developed my data science skills at large corporations (Lucent, UPS, and The Home Depot), then brought that experience to a start-up (IPO'd in 2018) where I created the analytics/data science foundation that propelled CDLX from start-up to multi-billion-dollar public company. I use all of those learnings at Best Buy. Throughout my career, I've been recognized with awards for outstanding academic research, industry innovation, military excellence, and civic involvement. I serve as President of my West Point class, give back to the analytics and data science community as a volunteer for the largest professional society in the world for analytics (INFORMS) and on Georgia Tech's MS Analytics Advisory Board.