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Stephen Elston is a data scientist, machine learning engineer, and AI engineer with several decades of experience. He is a company founder and has served in several senior management and board positions. He provides data science and machine learning consulting to companies from global enterprises to startups. Clients include Microsoft, SAP, Sybase, Thompson Reuters, and global banks. Elston is an instructor and creator of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science courses for Harvard Extension School, the University of Washington, and EdX. Previously, he was a cofounder of FinAnalytica, which creates market and credit risk systems with unprecedented accuracy for global banks, asset managers, major pension funds, and large multi-strategy hedge funds. He led the team which commercialized the AT&T Bell Labs version of the S language, S-PLUS, the language on which R is based. He is the author of several machine learning books and articles and a frequent speaker. Elston holds a PhD and Masters degrees in Geological and Geophysical Sciences from Princeton University, where he held a John von Neuman Super Computing Fellowship. He has a BS in Physics from the University of New Mexico.