Scott Ladenheim
Associate Professor of the Practice in Computing & Data Sciences
- Scott Ladenheim is an associate professor of the practice in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS), which he joined in the summer of 2024. Scott's interests are in the fields of data science, machine learning, and quantum computing.
Scott has a background in applied mathematics, scientific computing, and data science. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Temple University in 2015. After his PhD, Scott was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Manchester in the UK. Scott then moved to the Netherlands to work as a software engineer for Next Ocean. At Next Ocean, Scott developed software to predict ship-motions based on time series of radar images and ship-motion data. After that, Scott worked as a senior analyst programmer and technical team lead for Hybrid Intelligence, a division within Capgemini Engineering. Scott returned to the US in 2021. Shortly thereafter, Scott joined the applications team within BU's Research Computing Services (RCS) as a Senior Research Computing Applications and Data Specialist. In this role, Scott provided training and consulting in support of research focused on high-performance machine learning computations using the BU Shared Computing Cluster (SCC).
Research Interest
- Deep learning and iterative methods