Michael BENESTY

Paris Area, France France

Tax Lawyer & data scientist at Deloitte

Legal

Holding a double training as Lawyer and as CPA, I am also computer scientist. I am deeply interested in visualization, data mining and statistics applied to legal, accounting and tax data. I am contributing to several open source projects related to data sciences and specifically to machine learning (predictive algorithms). I have participated to the develpment of XGBoost which represents today a standard in the machine learning industry. I have also created a search motor to find legal decisions (supralegem.fr) using advanced NLP techniques to help lawyers in their tasks. Member of the group Distributed (Deep) Machine Learning Community http://dmlc.ml Co-author of R packages XGBoost...