Elliott Merriam's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Elliott Merriam has a B.S. in Science from UCLA and a M.S. in Math from UC Berkeley. He currently works as a Data Scientist at Facebook in the Greater Seattle Area. He is also a Patent Attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati from January 2014 to January 2016 in the Greater Seattle Area. He also has experience with Patent prosecution and post-grant Patent proceedings involving patents and applications in various technology spaces, including software, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology and chemistry. He also has experience with Developing unsupervised methods in Python to quantify similarity of items represented in the final dense layer of a trained recurrent neural network. As a data scientist, he has worked with various stakeholders at a startup to deliver actionable insights for their product in 3 weeks. Elliott Merriam also has experience withCollaboration with biomedical engineering lab to develop microfluidic devices for cell culture. In addition, he has multiple peer-reviewed publications and presentations at scientific meetings. Elliott Merriam is also a Graduate Research Assistant at Harvard University from September 2005 to May 2006 in the Greater Boston Area.』

🎓 Education

Based on Elliott Merriam's past education, it can be concluded that he is Hamlet-level ready for the scientific world. Merriam received his Certificate, Data Science at University of Washington from 2015 to 2015. He then completed his Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Neuroscience at University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2006 to 2012. In total, he completed all coursework towards the Ph.D. degree, Neuroscience at Harvard University from 2005 to 2006. From 2001 to 2004, Elliott Merriam was a undergraduate at University of Wisconsin-Madison.Prior tohis time as an undergraduate at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Elliott Merriam spent his time working as a research associate at the University of California, Davis Psychiatric Research Center. There, he worked on projects focused on studying the effects of meditation and yoga on the human brain. He also completed his undergraduate degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001.Elliott Merriam's work readiness for the scientific world is very good. He has completed a number of rigorous single-subject marine biology courses, which allows him to understand complex ocean systems. He is also extremely skilled in data analysis, having completed papers on topic such as k-means clustering and principal component analysis. These skills make him well-suited to working with complex data sets and studying complex ocean systems.Most importantly, Elliott Merriam has a passion for learning and researching. He is always looking for ways to improve his skills and learn more about the scientific world. He has developed strong workspaces and habits ofCritical Thinking and reflection, which have helped him succeed in his scientific career.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Elliott Merriam has many years of experience in data science, Patent prosecution and post-grant patent proceedings involving patents and applications in various technology spaces, including software, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology and chemistry. Elliott is also a Data Science Fellow at Insight Data Science from January 2016 to April 2016 and a Senior Fellow at University of Washington from October 2012 to December 2013. Elliott also has experience in collaborating with biomedical engineering labs to develop microfluidic devices for cell culture, as well as in undergraduate teaching and mentoring experience. He also completed all coursework for the Ph.D. and is currently a Graduate Research Assistant at Harvard University.Elliott Merriam has expertise in Ivory Coast virology, mouse genetics, viral mediated gene transfer, optogenetics, andComputer modeling of neurons and neuronal networks. His current research interests lie in whole-cell patch clamp recordings from pairs of cortical interneurons in brain slice to determine the influence of inhibitory and electrical synaptic coupling on relative spike timing, as well as in computationally modeling neurons and neuronal networks.