About

Building data products that inform and scale

Senior Data Scientist with 12 years across healthcare AI, fintech, and product analytics. I build data products from concept to production — RAG assistants, risk models, evaluation frameworks, and clinical analytics tools.

About me

I'm a Senior Data Scientist based in Dallas, TX, with 12 years of experience building data products at PathAI, Tempus AI, Mercury, and Meta.

My work spans healthcare AI, fintech risk, and product analytics. I've built RAG-based tools for clinical and scientific users, designed LLM evaluation frameworks for retrieval relevance, answer faithfulness, and hallucination risk, and developed risk models and experimentation systems that informed product decisions at scale.

When I'm not building data products, I'm thinking about model reliability, evaluation quality, and how to make complex AI systems trustworthy and understandable to the teams that use them. I hold an M.S. in Data Science and a B.S. in Computer Science from The University of Sydney.

Dallas, TX
michaelhagar55@gmail.com
(832) 827-4442

Jul 2024–Present

Senior Data Scientist, AI Pathology & LLM Products at PathAI — model reliability analysis, RAG tools, LLM evaluation frameworks.

Oct 2021–Jun 2024

Senior Data Scientist, Real-World Evidence & Clinical AI at Tempus AI — oncology analytics, cohort logic, NLP- and LLM-assisted tools.

Apr 2018–Sep 2021

Data Scientist at Mercury — fraud risk models, growth analytics, internal search and chatbot prototypes.

Jun 2014–Mar 2018

Data Scientist, Product Analytics at Meta — large-scale product analytics, A/B testing, NLP classification.

2012–2014

M.S. Data Science — The University of Sydney.

2008–2012

B.S. Computer Science — The University of Sydney.

How I work

Statistical Rigor

Evidence-based by default. I design experiments with proper controls, apply causal inference, and validate model assumptions before making recommendations.

Healthcare AI Impact

Built RAG assistants and analytics tools that give clinicians and scientists fast, trustworthy access to model outputs, cohort definitions, and validation results.

LLM Evaluation

Designed evaluation frameworks assessing retrieval accuracy, answer faithfulness, hallucination risk, and citation quality — keeping AI products honest and reliable.

Experimentation Culture

Designed and analyzed A/B tests and lifecycle experiments across onboarding, pricing, activation, and product features, from hypothesis and guardrail metrics through launch recommendation.

Data Products

Risk models, dashboards, cohort tools, and evaluation workflows that turn complex clinical, risk, and product data into reliable models and production-ready workflows.

Cross-Team Partnership

Trusted partner to product, engineering, clinical, risk, compliance, and executive teams — translating complex data findings into clear, actionable decisions.