Peter Skomoroch is a principal data scientist at LinkedIn, where he leads a team focused on identity, reputation, information extraction, and building data-driven products. He was also the creator of LinkedIn Skills. Prior to LinkedIn, he was based in Washington, D.C., where he mined insights from search query data as the director of advanced analytics at Juice Analytics and as a senior research engineer at AOL Search. While in D.C., he also founded DataWrangling.com, which provided custom data mining solutions to clients in bioinformatics, finance, and cloud computing. He spent the previous 6 years in Boston implementing Biodefense pattern detection algorithms for streaming sensor data at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and constructing predictive models for large retail datasets at Profitlogic (now Oracle Retail). Skomoroch has a B.S. in mathematics and physics from Brandeis University and did graduate coursework in machine learning at MIT.