Joseph Helbing

Machine Learning Engineer + Data Scientist

+1 630 240 4190
[email protected]
github.com/JoeHelbing

Skills

Technical Skills

Machine Learning (ML)
High Performance Computing (HPC)
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Reinforcement Learning (RL)
Agent Based Modeling

Tools & Technologies

Python, R, SQL, HTML, CSS, HTMX
Web Scraping
AWS Textract, S3, GovCloud
Data Collection, Analysis & Visualization
Plotly, Pyvis
Communicating Analysis to Non-Technical Audiences

Experience

US Digital Corps at EEOC – Data Scientist [2024 – Present]

Technical consulting and forensic code review for AI/ML investigations.
Modernized analytics infrastructure with cloud and VM systems.
Developed LLM-based case-analysis tools and network analyses.
Refactored internal analytics tools for speed, concurrency, and cost.
Co-led inter-agency NLP working group.

Highlighted Project — Language Model Case Analysis Support - Fine-tuned BERT models for free-form resume classification tasks. - Predicted job titles for unhired applicants to surface discrimination patterns.

Library of Congress – Federal Research Division – Data Analyst [2023 – 2024]

Led large-scale NLP project combining AWS GovCloud and local open-weights models.
Architected pipeline to extract 60+ variables from 500k+ court-martial documents.
Designed SQL schema and QA GUI; trained analysts and stakeholders.

Highlighted Project — Large-Scale Document Processing System - Integrated Textract, custom vision algorithms, and LLM refinement for high-quality data.

University of Chicago Data Science Institute – Research Assistant [2022]

Built SEC EDGAR scraper and information-extraction pipelines.

Paratech Inc – Various Roles [2015 – 2021]

Marketing Coordinator: revamped website, webinars, and sales enablement.
Industrial Sales Manager: opened new market and produced technical collateral.
China Regional Sales Manager: reorganized China operations and partnerships.

SiMple International Inc – Founder [2014 – 2015]

Launched telecom products for exchange students through partner channels.

INTO University Partnerships – US Recruitment Manager [2013 – 2014]

Recruited students for six US universities across Northern China in Mandarin.

Education

University of Chicago – M.A. Computational Social Science (2023)
Ohio State University – M.A. East Asian Languages & Literatures, Mandarin (2013)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – B.A. Political Science & China Studies (2011)

Languages

English – Native
Mandarin – Professionally Fluent