Clinton Brownley, Ph.D., is currently a lead data scientist at Tala with a focus on causal inference, machine learning, and experimentation. Prior to this role, he was a data scientist at Meta (formerly Facebook), where he was responsible for a variety of analytics projects designed to empower employees to do their best work. Prior to this role, he was a data scientist at WhatsApp, working to improve messaging and VoIP calling performance and reliability. Before WhatsApp, he worked on large-scale infrastructure analytics projects to inform hardware acquisition, maintenance, and datacenter operations decisions at Facebook.
As an avid student and teacher of modern data analysis and visualization techniques, Clinton teaches graduate courses in applied machine learning and interactive data visualization for UC Berkeley's MIDS program and a graduate course in regression analysis for NYU's A3SR program. He also leads an annual machine learning in python workshop at the ML Week and ODSC West conferences. Clinton is also the author of two books, Foundations for Analytics with Python and Multi-objective Decision Analysis.
Clinton is a past-president of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Statistical Association and is a council member for the Section on Practice of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Clinton received degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and American University.