Alejandro Aguilar
Senior Data Scientist
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Aguilar is a Senior Data Scientist based in Austin with a PhD in Statistics from Rice University and six years of experience applying advanced analytics in government and national lab settings. He has transitioned from academic research and internships at institutions like Sandia, PNNL, and NASA to applied roles at DTRA and SAIC, where he focuses on translating statistical methods into operationally relevant solutions. His background spans teaching, mentoring, and building data systems for education and defense, giving him strong communication skills alongside technical depth. Notably, his career blends rigorous probabilistic modeling with hands-on implementation for high-consequence government projects, and he maintains a public portfolio of his work at akaguilar.github.io.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at Rice UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Mathematics, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematics at The University of Texas-Pan American
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (1)
jekyll1
Github contributions (3)
akaguilar/Topological-Data-Analysis
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
akaguilar/akaguilar.github.io
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:63 pushes in 1 month
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