Charles Twardy
Senior Data Scientist
Reston, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Twardy is a senior data scientist blending statistical rigor with practical coding to deliver AI/ML solutions for cybersecurity and defense visibility. Based in Reston, Virginia, he has 12 years of experience spanning DARPA and IARPA programs, including leading DARPA SCORE crowd-forecasting and IARPA CREATE probabilistic reasoning efforts. At George Mason University, he remains an affiliate professor and led forecasting initiatives that unified prediction markets with Bayesian networks to produce scalable, realtime analysis across multiple institutions. He currently applies his expertise at the newly formed Amentum, supporting federal civilian customers with ML/NLP and business development on mission-critical programs. His work spans Bayesian modeling, causal inference, NLP for document search, and lost-person behavior forecasting, with publications in philosophy of science and machine learning. Charles combines hands-on coding with strategic leadership, mentoring dozens of student projects and coordinating international teams to deploy practical, interpretable AI systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Cognitive Science, History & Philosophy of Science, Ph.D., Cognitive Science, History & Philosophy of Science at Indiana University BloomingtonBA, Interdisciplinary Thesis: Astro/Phys, Philosophy, Anthropology, History of Science & Technology, BA, Interdisciplinary Thesis: Astro/Phys, Philosophy, Anthropology, History of Science & Technology at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ctwardy/AoC_2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 36 pushes, 8 branches in 23 days
ctwardy/soral
Apr 2017 - Oct 2021
SORAL: SARBayes Optimal Resource Allocation LIbrary
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 6 months
resource-allocationallocationoptimal
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