Dr. Charles Wheelus is an award-winning, "player/coach" AI transformation leader and full lifecycle data scientist with over two decades of hands-on experience driving high-impact solutions across the federal, telecommunications, FinTech, and cybersecurity sectors. Known for his unique ability to function as both a strategic advisor to C-suite stakeholders and an active technical lead, he excels at translating complex technical domains into actionable business outcomes.

As a true player/coach, Dr. Wheelus has built, managed, and mentored geographically distributed teams of data scientists, developers, and engagement managers; consistently scaling analytics capabilities into enterprise value engines while simultaneously rolling up his sleeves to drive core research and development projects.

Throughout his career, Dr. Wheelus has delivered transformational business results by optimizing the alignment of human and machine intelligence. His notable achievements include driving over 500% revenue growth in his first year leading federal engagements at Dataiku, and designing a freight logistics platform that scaled a 5 man startup to 200 employees and past 100M ARR, while boosting employee productivity by 20x. "

Dr. Wheelus has accelerated AI initiative time-to-value by over 50% through data architecture optimization, tripled research analyst throughput using rapid LLM-based document query and summarizing platforms, and improved cyber threat detection efficacy by over 300% through novel network feature creation and machine learning techniques. Additionally, his work in predictive audio analytics achieved F1 scores above 0.9, boosting operational AI maturity for a global automobile manufacturer.

Grounding his extensive field experience is a distinguished academic and research foundation. Dr. Wheelus holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University, where his doctoral research focused on network feature engineering and data science analytics for cyber threat intelligence. A published author and recognized thought leader, he has contributed numerous peer-reviewed papers to prominent IEEE and MDPI journals on topics ranging from IoT security to big data architectures. He also holds a USPTO patent for an innovative system and method designed to detect cheating during online assessments. This powerful combination of academic rigor and real-world execution makes Dr. Wheelus a trusted advisor for organizations seeking secure, scalable, and compliant AI solutions