Charles Martin

Current

• Consultant at Barclays Global Investors

Past

• Me at The Mechanical Zoo
• Consultant at Ebay
• Consultant at France Telecom R&D

• Consultant at PayByTouch
• Consultant at Roche Palo Alto
• Consultant at MicroAppli Pte Ltd
• Consultant at Market Gear
• Software Engineer at NetByTel

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Chicago
• The Ohio State University

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• my product: OPUS
• Quantum Mechanics paper

Charles Martin’s Summary

PhD, Chemistry, University of Chicago
NSF Fellow, Theoretical Chemistry

10 years professional consulting

Charles Martin’s Specialties:

Very advanced mathematical and statistical modeling, text mining, machine learning, and modern search engine relevance algorithms .


Software development (Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, C, MatLab, etc)
Swing and Eclipse Plugin/RCP/EMF User Interfaces
J2EE/Web Services (WebLogic)/XML
SQL and OLAP/data modeling
Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Quantitative financial mathematics (i.e. derivatives pricing and volatility modeling), and computational and theoretical chemistry and physics.

Charles Martin’s Experience

• Consultant

  Barclays Global Investors

  (Public Company; BCS; Investment Management industry)

  March 2009 — Present (9 months)

  Consultant in Innovation Group

• Me

  The Mechanical Zoo

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 2008 — February 2009 (8 months)

  Researching and developing state-of-the-art statistical machine learning techniques (SVM, NLP, etc)

• Consultant

  Ebay

  (Public Company; ebay; Internet industry)

  June 2007 — December 2007 (7 months)

  I recently finished two consulting engagements with eBay.
  
  In my first role, I was working with the customer service product development business unit developing a machine learning solution to classify customer support emails.
  
  In the second, with Shopping.com (eBay), I demonstrated how to improve their search engine relevance algorithm.Basically, I applied state-of-the-art statistical machine learning algorithms
  to learn the contextual and behavioral patterns apparent in the eBay clickstream data and used this to design and build a very high performance, highly accurate, adaptive and retrainable relevance algorithm for the Shopping.com search engine, as it
  was being used as an ad server for the eBay main site.
  
  My work involves both business analysis as well as research and development using state-of-the-art machine learning/text mining methods using large scale, multi-class and structural Support Vector Machines (SVMs), NLP tools, etc

• Consultant

  France Telecom R&D

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  September 2006 — March 2007 (7 months)

  Research and development of technology for personalized mobile services. Applied Bayesian statistical models to create the LastInch personalization engine.

• Consultant

  PayByTouch

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2006 — September 2006 (2 months)

  Developed statistical models for modeling consumer behavior using Empirical Bayesian methods

• Consultant

  Roche Palo Alto

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  June 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Developed prototype AI technology for personalized search of scientific articles using the Eclipse RCP framework and semantic search techologies including entity recognizers and pattern recognition algorithms

• Consultant

  MicroAppli Pte Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2004 — December 2004 (2 months)

  Delivered high performance, multi-threaded java server for XML/HTTP communications

• Consultant

  Market Gear

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry)

  September 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 6 months)

  Designed and implemented the OPUS software. Chief architect and developer,
  
  http://opuspro.com/
  
  Recently acquired by TD Ameritrade
  
  Developed very solid knowledge of financial mathematics for equity derivatives.

• Software Engineer

  NetByTel

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2001 — March 2001 (3 months)

  Prototyped voice XML implementations for the next generation NetByTel architecture.

Charles Martin’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  NSF Fellow , Theoretical Biophysics , 1994 — 1996

  I successfully applied the Effective Hamiltonian theory to improve the results of semi-empirical MDNO calculations. This was a one-of-a-kind study.
  
  http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jpcafh/1998/102/i05/abs/jp9722972.html
  
  Produced a couple of single author papers. I actually prefer to work with others but sometimes you have to sit down and figure out the details yourself. Here's one:
  
  http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jpchax/1996/100/i34/abs/jp960617w.html

  Activities and Societies:

  Competed with U of I club team in gymnastics.

• University of Chicago

  PhD , Chemistry (Theory) , 1990 — 1994

  Researched the Ab Initio foundations into Semiempirical Methods for electronic structure for polyenes. This means applying quantum field theory to understand certain conceptual issues in computational quantum chemistry.
  
  
  On my own initiative, devised and implemented similarity transformations for the spin-dependent three- and four-electron matrix elements that airse in the theory.
  
  Wrote lots of complex Fortran and C code for the Cray supercomputer to
  diagonalize giant matrices, parse and reorganize legacy Fortran code, compute Feynman diagrams, find bugs, mange the workflow, visualize data, etc.
  
  Reverse engineered Fortran legacy code using semi-functional pre-compiler (written in Lisp and C)
  
  Ran lots of calculations and published 6 papers.
  
  Here's a very minor entry in the Wikipedia on this:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-empirical_quantum_chemistry_methods
  
  I was awarded an NSF fellowship for my work (1 of 2 nationwide, very prestigious)

  Activities and Societies:

  Gymnastics Club, President and competitor

• The Ohio State University

  B.S , Math, Chemistry , 1986 — 1990

  A couple of publications, one in math, one in chemical physics
  
  Undergraduate research: invented a Monte Carlo simulation for studying the behavior of defect melting in crystals. Ran some supercomputer simulations and published some cool work:
  
  http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v44/i2/p477_1
  
  Here's a link to a national math contest where I won first prize
  
  http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/history/math-matrix/Sp89/

  Activities and Societies:

  President, Math Club
  Research scientist, Singer Group, Theoretical Chemistry

Additional Information

Charles Martin’s Websites:

• my product: OPUS
• Quantum Mechanics paper

Charles Martin’s Interests:

Recreational and Masters Gymnastics

Charles Martin’s Groups:

•    Ruby on Rails
•    DataShaping Advanced Analytics
•    eBay Employees and Alumni Group
•    Cloud Computing
•    Algorithmic Trading
•    Machine Learning Connection
•    Quant Finance
•    Computational Chemists
•    Multi-Asset Class Algorithmic Trading
•    Text Analytics
•    Text Mining
•    Artificial Intelligence Researchers, Faculty + Professionals
•    Bay Area University of Chicago Alumni
•    European Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ Silicon Valley
•    Open Cloud Manifesto

Charles Martin’s Honors:

National Science Foundation Fellow, Theoretical Chemistry
(one of two nationwide)

First place national winner, SIAM: (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics )
undergraduate math contest

Bronze Medal, Masters Gymnastics: Empire State Games

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