CONNOR EATON
(203) 814-8364 github.com/connormeatoneaton
connormeaton@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/connormeaton
INTERESTS
LLMs, Natural language processing, computer vision, multi-modal models, dataset generation, psychology, agriculture
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Affective Software, Inc., Senior Data Scientist; Remote May 2019 - Present
- Building machine learning models for multi-modal human behavior classification using natural language processing, computer vision, and spectral/prosodic analysis techniques that outcompete human-labeled benchmarks. Models serve as the ML foundations for a suite of products.
- Extensive experience in computer vision; dataset creation, training image classification models, digital signal processing, remote photoplethysmography
- Extensive experience in LLMs; finetuning, prompt engineering and chaining for product development, research, and synthetic data generation.
- Generating large multi-modal labeled datasets using mixed methods such as generative AI, clinical recordings, web-scraping, and fine-tuning large language models for specific generation tasks for training models used in production.
- Designing demos and products to showcase ML applications internally and externally.
- Team lead for all data science and machine learning related projects.
- Primarily work in python, but have experience in R, C++, HTML/CSS, Julia and Nim
The Gottman Institute, Data Scientist; Remote Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
- Technical lead for a clinical psychology research lab.
- Annotated the emotions/behaviors of couples in a lab/clinical setting as observational research .
- Built pipelines for data management, analysis, and visualization, allowing our lab to efficiently store and utilize data for education, research, and training.
Metis, Student, Seattle, WA Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
- Competitive short-term educational program focused on machine learning.
- Completed several projects in different ML domains, including NLP, computer vision, audio processing, and deep learning.
EDUCATION
M.Sc. Plant Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 2016
B.Sc. Agricultural Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 2013
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Sequoia Immersions, Trainer, Mult. Locations July 2017 - Present
- Co-lead psychoeducation retreats for couples based on several popular research-based relationship frameworks with my wife.
University of New Hampshire, Graduate Teaching Asst.; Durham NH Aug 2013 - May 2016
- Taught five different undergraduate courses within the biology department, including one international travel course.
University of New Hampshire, Research Manager.; Durham NH Aug 2013 - May 2016
- Managed multi-year grant-funded research projects in soil biochemistry and plant physiology resulting in journal publications and conference presentations.
University of Vermont, Research Assistant.; Burlington, VT Aug 2011- May 2013
- Assisted in numerous interdisciplinary research projects focused on improving organic food production methods.
PATENTS
- U.S. Patent 17/410,791 “Automated Systems and Methods that Generate Affect-Annotated Timelines”
- Pending patent in remote photoplethysmography
PUBLICATIONS
- Yield and soluble solids content of winter-grown spinach in unheated high tunnels in New England. KM Orde, C Eaton, RG Sideman - HortScience, 2018
- Year-round management of high tunnel production systems: spinach and tomato. C Eaton. 2016. University of New Hampshire.
- Effects of varying potassium levels on yields and petiole potassium levels for organically fertilized high tunnel tomato. C Eaton, RG Sideman, H Bryant, M Hutton, B Hoskins. HORTSCIENCE, 2015
CERTIFICATIONS
- Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work Leader, The Gottman Institute
HOBBIES
writing music (check out my spotify), surfing, reading