Patrick Phelps

About Patrick Phelps

I lead the MLE orgs for Wayfair’s Search, Recommendations, Personalization, Advertising, Marketing, Customer understanding, Identity, Experimentation, and Causal inference groups. A diverse and talented organization operating on 3 continents. I enjoy forming high performance teams, taking innovative products from concept to the launch and iteration cycle and generating in-market value with noticeable impact on Wayfair’s P+L.My teams have a track record of product delivery and GM leadership, driving efficiencies and transforming product development practices leading to significantly increased (>$1 Billion) revenues.Generating great experiences that deliver value for our customers, our shareholders, our business while building great careers for my team members drives me. Love to meet others interested in and talk about foundations models, LLMs for non language use-cases, MLops, accelerations the ML production workflow, sequence models, causal inference techniques, as well as marketing, design, and product management.

Experience

1. Director of Science

   Meta

   Aug 2025 — Present

   Ads ranking

Education

• Case Western Reserve University

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics

  2007 — 2014

• Michigan Technological University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Minor Mathematics

  2001 — 2006

Skills

• Data Mining
• Numpy
• Radiation Detectors
• Python
• Latex
• Data Visualization
• Mathematical Modeling
• Machine Learning
• Technical Communication
• Data Analysis
• Technical Writing
• Statistics
• Astrophysics
• Jquery
• Analytics
• Data Science
• Project Management
• Statistical Modeling
• Scipy
• Mysql
• Hive
• Matlab
• Sql