Valerie R. Coffman

Valerie R. Coffman is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder of Swayable, a company that leverages data science to assess how effectively media content influences public opinion. She has held this position since January 2018, operating out of the San Francisco Bay Area.1

Professional Background

• Swayable (2018 - Present): As CTO, Coffman focuses on technology strategy and the application of data science in media.
• Xometry (2014 - 2018): She served as both CTO and Chief Science Officer, where she was instrumental in developing a system for instant pricing of custom manufacturing based on CAD files and created a patented pricing method utilizing machine learning.1
• Feastie Inc. (2011 - 2014): Coffman founded this company, which specialized in natural language processing to extract recipe data from various online sources.
• NIST (2006 - 2011): As a postdoctoral researcher and physicist, she worked on software development for materials science research.1

Education

• Cornell University: M.S. and Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics (2000 - 2006).
• Johns Hopkins University: B.S. in Physics (1996 - 2000) and a certificate in Technology Entrepreneurship from the Carey Business School (2010) .1

Coffman's diverse expertise spans technology strategy, data science, and advanced physics, making her a significant figure in the tech industry.