Credentials

Freelance Data Mining was founded by Michael Barnathan on February 26, 2008. At the moment, he's operating it as a sole proprietorship, but has plans to hire additional help when necessary.

Michael has been involved in the machine learning field since 2004 (originally in the field known as symbolic artificial intelligence but now working in statistical machine learning) and has published scholarly articles in data mining and artificial intelligence, particularly as they apply to the biomedical field, at national and international academic conferences in both machine learning and biomedicine, such as AAAI, ISBI, IWDM, and CARS. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation, which is on the development of novel tensor decomposition algorithms for use in mining biomedical images and detecting anomalies in network traffic, at Temple University. He received an MS in Computer and Information Sciences from Temple University in August 2007 and a BS in Computer Science with a Math minor from Monmouth University in May 2006. He has received numerous awards for his academic work, including a Temple University Fellowship, a Dean's Scholarship, the Dr. Harold Jacobs Scholarship for Excellence in Science, Technology, and Engineering, the 2006 Excellence in Computer Science Award at Monmouth University, and the $5,000 Alumni Association Academic Achievement Award for graduating with the highest GPA in the Monmouth University class of 2006. He is a member of the Phi Eta Sigma, Lambda Sigma Tau, Kappa Mu Epsilon, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Golden Key Honor Societies as well as the National Dean's List, the ACM, and the IEEE.

Michael began programming at the age of 8 and released his first popular application, Metasquarer, at the age of 12, rediscovering some advanced algorithms, such as alpha-beta pruning, in the process. He began developing websites at age 10. Since then, he has been consistently involved in software and web development, whether on opensource projects such as KCPUMonitor and the Generalized Networking and Sockets Library, freelancing efforts such as those for Schneiderman and Associates and RDA International (working on the award-winning and very popular W Hotels and Civilization Anonymous sites), paid positions, such as his position as a website developer for Kaller Historical Documents, or just his own projects, such as Ecossaise, HireGeeks, and LanceRates.

He believes in doing it all - simultaneously - and has even organized a vision for a university around the concept. Combining his skills in data mining, programming, and web design to create a highly unique service was the natural evolution of this philosophy.

He also wrote this website. He finds it odd referring to himself in the third person.