👋 Hi there! I’m Joy Paulsen (pronouns are they/them), a data-oriented professional living in Minneapolis, MN. I’m currently a Lead Data Scientist working on personalization at Target. A few of my other professional interests include software engineering, sustainability, and climate science.

Work

Current

My team at Target builds automated systems to classify products into semantically meaningful themes. Previously, I worked on a cross-functional team developing performant streaming applications for real-time inference that was used to enhance web and mobile UX. Additionally, I have worked on both traditional and deep learning-based recommendation systems integrated into several different products during my time at Target.

Previously

Before that, I was a member of the wonderful data science team at C.H. Robinson, a third-party logistics (3PL) provider. I ended my time there leading a team focused on building fast recommentation systems and search engine capabilities for their flagship app, having previously worked on a diverse range of problem spaces including pricing and demand forecasting.

Meta

Built with Hugo and hosted with Netlify. The animation on the home page is made with D3.js and shows the histogram of random samples drawn from a normal distribution - every instance is different!