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Ryan Paul Lafler, M.Sc.

Founder, CEO, Chief Data Scientist, and Lead Consultant

View Ryan's portfolio consisting of project-based assignments, contracts, grants, and appointed positions including his professional and academic history.​ Learn more about Ryan's publications, training seminars, and conference proceedings.

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Making Organization's Data Dreams into Data Realities

From developing data-driven full-stack applications leveraging big data in the cloud and on private servers to training, optimizing, and deploying machine learning workflows for organization's AI needs, Ryan's experience using Python, R, SAS, JavaScript, open-source APIs, and databases (SQL, file storage providers, cloud storage providers, NoSQL, and document-based) gives him the versatility to manage and help organization's develop all aspects of their data-oriented processes.

Ryan's Featured Contracts, Projects, Grants, Conferences, and Publications

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Professional Experience 

Ryan Paul Lafler is the Founder, CEO, Chief Data Scientist, and Lead Consultant at Premier Analytics Consulting, LLC, a consulting firm based in San Diego, California that specializes in delivering data-driven analysis, products, and services to Clients across the United States. Ryan is also Adjunct Faculty with the Big Data Analytics Graduate program and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University (SDSU). Ryan serves as a contracted Research Scientist with the SDSU Climate Informatics Laboratory (SCIL) on funded grants, projects, and proposals.

Ryan received his Master of Science in Big Data Analytics from San Diego State University in May 2023 following his successful defense and publication of his thesis. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Statistics and minored in Quantitative Economics from San Diego State University after graduating Magna cum Laude.

 

Ryan’s programming experience using Python, R, SAS, JavaScript (React.js), open-source API frameworks (FastAPI), and SQL has contributed to his success as a Big Data Scientist; Machine Learning Engineer; Statistician; and Full-Stack Application Developer.

 

His passions include Machine Learning (ML); Deep Learning (DL); developing and deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) workflows; statistical analysis; data-driven full-stack application development; interactive dashboard development; data visualization; and programming in open-source and proprietary programming languages.

Founder, CEO, Chief Data Scientist, and Lead Consultant

Aug 2023 - Present

Premier Analytics Consulting, LLC

Founder, CEO, Chief Data Scientist, and Lead Consultant for Premier Analytics Consulting, LLC. Manage contracts, consulting opportunities, and Client relationships. Involved in each of our Clients' projects. Deliver training and hands-on-workshops at professional data science conferences across the United States.

Well-Versed in Open-Source Programming Languages and Proprietary Programming Languages

Well-versed in Open-Source languages including Python, R, JavaScript (React.js), and SQL

Experience working in proprietary languages and products including SAS, Google Earth Engine, and ArcGIS

Develop responsive applications with scalable API frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, Django, and Node.js)

Create full-stack applications and conduct analysis in programming languages tailored to Clients' needs

Experienced in Data Engineering, Data Pipeline Development, and Data Processing

Engineer high-speed pipelines into cloud storage services such as Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage

Process unstructured images, videos, audio files, and text sources as inputs for models and algorithms

Query data inside of structured relational databases and import semi-structured delimited files

Experienced in spatiotemporal data formats, file types, tiling providers, and storage services

Implementing Scalable, Data-Driven Analysis using Python, R, and SAS

Assist Clients develop optimized workflows that scale well for big data in Python, R, and SAS

Perform programming language conversions between Python, R, and SAS

Develop training seminars and hands-on-workshops for Python, R, and SAS users

Helping Clients Chart their Machine Learning Roadmaps from Model Training to Deployment​​

Leverage Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, and Forecasting for Clients​

Help organizations navigate complexities of supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised ML

Train, fine-tune, optimize, and determine best-performing models and algorithms for Clients

Program in Python, R, and SAS for Statistical Modeling and Machine Learning projects

Developing Responsive and Interactive Full-Stack Web Applications

Experienced in React.js for developing sleek and professional front-end interfaces

Integrate server-side data analysis, requests, and data querying using Python's API frameworks

Create interactive web applications and dashboards that are tailored to Clients' needs

Adjunct Faculty and Research Scientist

Aug 2023 - Present

San Diego State University

Responsible for designing and delivering curriculum for certain graduate-level courses in the Big Data Analytics program at San Diego State University. Responsibilities include building courses that teach practical, industry-expected skills in data science, presenting engaging lectures, and selecting topics from several areas in data science ranging from Python programming, R programming, machine learning, statistical analysis, GIS analysis, database structuring, and application development to immerse students in applied fields of study.

Fall 2023: Advanced Special Topics in Big Data Analytics (BDA 696)

Spring 2024: Machine Learning Engineering (BDA 602) and Spatiotemporal Analysis and Modeling (STAT 596)

Fall 2024: Advanced Special Topics in Big Data Analytics (BDA 696) and Applied Multivariate Statistics (STAT 520)

Data Scientist and Researcher

Aug 2019 - May 2023

Climate Informatics Laboratory, San Diego State University

Oversaw and coordinated research into the development of supervised and generative neural networks (deep learning models) for unstructured image and video data. Particular emphasis on visualizing spatial data that changes over time (spatiotemporal data) using Python, R, and Google Earth Engine. Designed interactive applications with front-end interfaces for viewing, querying, and analyzing climatological, geological, and environmental data.

 

Implemented relational databases for efficiently storing and querying downloaded climate image data, giving structure to unstructured datasets through SQL integrations in Python for GIS analysis. Designed data pipelines to optimize loading of Big Data into models for training and prediction. Processed historical and real-time Big Data from the U.S. Census Bureau, NOAA, and Google Earth Engine for visualization, analysis, and modeling.

Developed a series of R statistical programming videos for reporting descriptive statistics, visualizations, and performing array operations taking advantage of R's vectorization and built-in functions. Training videos are posted publicly on YouTube, viewable by clicking here.

Instructor and Graduate Teaching Associate

Aug 2021 - May 2023

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University

Instructor at San Diego State University for Introductory Statistics: STAT-250. Trained students in using Microsoft Excel for data extraction, cleaning, exploratory analysis, visualizing variables, building linear regression models, conducting parametric statistical tests to evaluate claims, and drawing conclusions from results. Discussed the assumptions and limitations of popular parametric tests and regression models, including when to use certain statistical tests over others.

Developed presentations and hands-on activities to engage students in weekly lectures. Received overwhelmingly positive anonymous reviews from students, available upon request.

Academic Profile

Successfully defended and published a Thesis on "Video Remastering" in Python that introduces methods for doubling any video's framerate, enhancing its resolution, and generating statistically-valid baseline metrics for evaluation with similar upsampling models. Completed several projects focusing on model-making and relational database structuring for business analytics, climatology, political science, and other fields. Concentrated on programmatic data analysis using languages including Python, R, SAS, and SQL.

Master of Science in Big Data Analytics, M.Sc. | 3.88 GPA

Jan 2021 - May 2023

Big Data Analytics Program, San Diego State University

Published a Thesis that was approved by a Committee of distinguished professors from the Big Data Analytics Program and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Completed projects, conducted research, developed products, and fulfilled coursework involving topics about:

  • Machine Learning (Ensemble Methods, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, SVM),

  • Deep Learning through Neural Networks (Regression, Classification, Object Detection, Segmentation, Generative AI),

  • Statistical Analysis (Hypothesis Testing, Multiple Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Generalized Linear Models),

  • Time Series Analysis & Spatiotemporal Analysis,

  • Relational Database Development, Querying, & Management,

  • Consulting Projects,

  • Climate Informatics and Data Visualization.

Extensive programming in Python, R, SQL, and SAS for data analysis tasks. Research included developing neural networks through TensorFlow in Python, evaluating machine learning algorithms for classification, regression, segmentation, and dimensionality reduction, and conducting spatiotemporal analysis on climatology data.

Bachelor of Science in Statistics, B.Sc. | 3.77 GPA
Minored in Quantitative Economics

Aug 2017 - Dec 2020

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University

Graduated Magna cum Laude with Great Distinction in Statistics. Recipient of Dean's List in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

 

Awarded the Academic Excellence in Statistics honor from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

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