Christian Hargraves

Christian Hargraves is a Principal Research Scientist in Machine Learning at FamilySearch, with extensive experience in data science and machine learning spanning over 17 years. Early roles included technical positions at Yahoo! Search Marketing and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where significant contributions included developing a new PageRank algorithm and a translation memory system. Christian's career features leadership roles, such as Executive Director at Henry Schein One and Data & Machine Learning Team Lead at MC Research Labs, where mentorship in advanced data technologies was emphasized. Notable achievements include pioneering information extraction techniques at FamilySearch, enhancing data efficiency through Spark implementations, and fostering a user-driven decision-making culture as Co-Founder of qpquo LLC. Academic credentials include Associates degrees in Math and Computer Science from Brigham Young University and Brigham Young University - Idaho.