Miguel Perez

Miguel Perez is a highly experienced professional in the fields of machine learning and data science, currently serving as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Personalization team at CNN since November 2021. Prior to this role, Miguel held the position of Senior Data Scientist at CNN and worked as a Data Scientist at EY, where significant contributions included authoring the firm’s first academic AI publication at NeurIPS 2018 and developing an Anti-Money Laundering surveillance solution using advanced data modeling techniques. Miguel began a career in academia as a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where a Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics was achieved, along with a Master of Science in the same field. Educational background also includes dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Physics and Mathematics from Rutgers University-Newark.