Brian Muller
Brian Muller is the Director of Data Science at Vox Media. Previously, he was a co-founder of OpBandit, a content optimization tool for online publishers, which was acquired by Vox in April 2015. Prior to founding OpBandit, he was the Lead Data Scientist at LivingSocial. While at LivingSocial, he founded the data science team and oversaw the creation and growth of a big data infrastructure and the teams necessary to support it - all while the customer base grew from thousands to over 70 million users. Before that, he worked as the Web Director for Foreign Policy Magazine under the Washington Post. Brian has also worked as an adviser and consultant for a variety of groups including PBS, the Carnegie Foundation, and the State of South Carolina. He as a MS in the Biomedical Sciences, and has spent time in academia working for the Medical University of South Carolina and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine focused on squeezing meaningful information out of vast quantities of genomic data.