ELEMENT.

Data science consulting that lets you grow your business while we solve your problems at every stage of the product development cycle.

Who are you?

  • A startup looking to understand the topology of its social network?

  • A legacy company with over 80 years of data looking to leverage modern computational techniques to streamline business processes and predict regions of new market opportunities?

ELEMENT has a proven record of success no matter your organization’s stage or size. We choose the right tools—or build new ones—to deliver outstanding results. Not every problem needs a machine learning solution, and sometimes plain old stats just works. We love finding simple, transparent, and interpretable solutions to help our clients find value in their data, but with over a decade of scientific research and development experience at the post-Ph.D. level, we’re not afraid to take on any problem, no matter the depth, even if it’s never been solved before.

Who are we?

Gregory Pang, Ph.D.

Founder, Principal, and Managing Member

Dr. Gregory Pang has an extensive history providing quantitative and impactful results as a nuclear physicist, data scientist, and data science and technical consultant. A sampling of the problems he works on for his private clients ranges from assessing the health of groundwater subbasin networks from sparse data observations in both spatial and temporal dimensions, to elevating an organization’s marketing channel investment strategy using marketing mix modeling.

In the public space, he develops quantitative priority plans and data stewardship practices to facilitate data-driven decision support for natural resource management. He is currently the principal data science consultant working on priority plan development on the Regional Fire and Forest Capacity (RFFC) grant for the Northern Sacramento Valley Coalition (NSVC – comprised of Tehama County, Glenn County, parts of Shasta County, and parts of Siskiyou County) and the Resource Conservation District of Tehama County (RCDTC).

Greg has also worked closely with the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians on a series of studies as part of the California Coastal Conservancy Forest Health and Wildfire Resilience Program focused on tracking the changing landscape of the Pomo territory over a 25-year period using satellite imagery.

Prior to starting his own consulting company, Greg was a data scientist and employee #5 at a Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos backed startup where he developed machine learning algorithms to identify high-value subterranean ore deposits from a combination of remote sensing data, geochemical data, and geophysical data from public and private data sources.

Before making the transition to data science, Greg had been solving complex problems since the age of 15, when he began working at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He subsequently built his nuclear physics career at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and was responsible for marrying atomic physics-based ion-trapping techniques to the field of super heavy element synthesis in particle accelerator experiments. 

Greg was selected to be part of the American contingent on the German-American experimental team whose work, at Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, confirmed the discovery of element 117, now known as Tennessine (Ts) on the periodic table.

He has been invited to give talks in Germany, Japan, Canada, and across the United States. He has presented his research to four eras of the United States Secretary of Energy and countless congressmen, congresswomen, scientific leaders, and business leaders.

Expertise: Complex problem solving, geospatial analysis, time series analysis and working with probabilistic outcome uncertainty, remote sensing data, statistics, probability, hypothesis testing, quantifying uncertainty, data analysis, data science, data engineering, machine learning, and communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

We’d love to work with you.