Alex Gittens
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlex Gittens is an associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who focuses on the statistical and computational challenges of extracting information from large high-dimensional data. With 12 years of research and teaching experience, he moved from industry research labs to academia, holding roles at eBay Research Labs and the International Computer Science Institute before joining RPI as an assistant professor and later advancing to associate professor. He earned a PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Caltech and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston, equipping him with a strong mathematical and engineering foundation. His work spans theory and practice, combining rigorous statistical methods with scalable computational techniques to turn vast datasets into actionable insights. Based in the City of Troy, New York, he collaborates across departments to advance data-driven science and education.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (28)
amazon9
cluster-computing7
elastic6
aws6
kubernetes4
python4
breeze4
dotty3
backend3
hierarchical3
data-format2
scala2
hierarchical-data2
ipython2
scala-native2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rustandruin/large-scale-climate
Jul 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:79 commits, 7 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 year 2 months
pythonclimateeofscomputeclimate-data
rustandruin/test-scala-netcdf
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:55 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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