TJ Torres

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Data Scientist at Netflix

Technology / Software / Internet

My academic background is in theoretical high energy physics and I hold a PhD, studying quantum gravity and early universe cosmology, from UC Santa Cruz. My current role is at Stitch Fix on the Styling Algorithms Research team with the directive of researching and applying machine learning and statistical methods to our fashion recommendation system. I have an extensive background in Deep Learning and have developed numerous production systems for applying computer vision at scale to make robust recommendations that help alleviate the common cold-start issues. Additionally, I have worked greatly on applying unsupervised deep learning methods to generative image modeling and have release...