I am a founding software engineer at LearnUp, a startup whose mission is to enable job seekers to learn the skills they need in order to get hired. My work email is pariser [at] learnup [dot] me.

Prior to LearnUp, I was a software engineer at Lexity, helping small to medium sized businesses manage the complications of online advertising. While at Lexity I worked on automated advertising algorithms, built large portions of the lexity.com website, coded the foundations of the Commerce Central API and co-wrote the Live Sales app which was featured at LAUNCH 2013.

I nearly got my Ph.D. in Stanford's ICME department, settling for a M.S. after a few years. My academic interests have included interactive data analysis, complex network analysis, statistical prediction, pattern recognition, and mathematical modeling of social behavior.