Specialties: Game Analytics and BI, Data Mining, Visualization, Data Science.

Senior Data Scientist @ From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Director of BI and Analytics @ Led a company-wide initiative to standardize game KPIs and reports, developed a self-service reporting portal in Tableau Server, and managed the game analysts and data engineering groups. From February 2015 to July 2015 (6 months) Greater San Diego AreaEcommerce Marketing Analyst @ Supported the ecommerce, brand, and game teams by defining and implementing portfolio-wide KPIs, performed ROI analysis for marketing and CRM campaigns, helped onboard game analysts, and used predictive analytics and forecasting methods for retention and monetization analysis. From December 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 2 months) Greater San Diego AreaUser Research Analyst @ Provided game analytics and business intelligence services across first-party titles on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Windows 8. Support included planning for game telemetry and instrumentation, advising partners on game telemetry, building ETLs, generating reports, and performing ad-hoc analysis on design, user retention, and monetization From August 2012 to October 2013 (1 year 3 months) Ph.D. Student @ My dissertation research involved mining repositories of professional StarCraft players to build an AI that learns from demonstration. EISBot uses replays to predict which strategies an opponent will execute, anticipate when structures will be produced, and to provide examples of how to act. From September 2007 to June 2012 (4 years 10 months) Technical Analyst @ Mined gameplay data from Madden NFL 11 and modeled player retention using regression models. The findings from this analysis were used to influence playbook complexity in later releases. From September 2010 to December 2010 (4 months) Software Developer @ Developed a web-based logistics application for vessel load planning and cargo management. The application stack included Flash, Hibernate, PostGIS, ActiveMQ, and the Spring Framework. From February 2004 to August 2007 (3 years 7 months)

PhD, Computer Science @ University of California, Santa Cruz From 2007 to 2012 M.S., Computer Science @ California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo From 2005 to 2006 B.S., Computer Engineering @ California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo From 2001 to 2005 Ben Weber is skilled in: Machine Learning, Case-Based Reasoning, Game AI, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Research, Java, Data Mining