Arden Baxter
Operations Research Senior Scientist
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolArden Baxter is an Operations Research Senior Scientist with a PhD from Georgia Tech and eight years of experience applying optimization and simulation to supply chain, healthcare, disaster response, and large-scale transportation problems. Currently at Manhattan Associates, Arden translates research-grade agent-based and optimization models into practical software solutions that improve logistics resilience and decision-making. Past work at the CDC involved modeling HIV transmission and intervention impacts to inform national prevention strategy, demonstrating an ability to bridge technical analysis and policy-facing recommendations. Arden’s background includes NSF fellowship-supported research, power-system cybersecurity modeling, and hands-on project leadership from campus-wide events to multi-stakeholder community programs, highlighting versatility across quantitative research and operational delivery. Known for combining rigorous theory with pragmatic heuristics, Arden excels at turning complex stochastic problems into actionable models for real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Senior at Rollins CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Operations Research at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
forecasts10
visualization10
standardized10
bootstrapping10
data-access10
analytics9
atmospheric-modelling9
github-pages8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AADeLucia/cms-capstone-archae-catalog
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:75 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
ardenebaxter/covid19-forecast-hub
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Projections of COVID-19, in standardized format
Contributions:33 pushes in 3 months
projectionsstandardized
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