Ben Kizaric
Software Engineer & Data Scientist
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Kizaric is a software engineer and data scientist with 11 years of hands-on experience building production web systems and a current focus on machine learning as a first-year ECE master's student. He blends practical engineering—full-stack development, CI pipelines, and productionized ML—with research in unsupervised techniques to boost supervised models, bringing both theory and implementation into real-world decision systems. His background includes driving analytics and automation at Northwestern Mutual, leading a multi-organization data portal for workforce insights, and founding an award-winning study-app prototype. Comfortable communicating results to technical and non-technical audiences, he also mentors students in introductory data science and has a knack for turning high-dimensional research ideas into robust, deployable pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering (Machine Learning Track), Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering (Machine Learning Track) at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (7)
speech9
neuroimaging8
python7
viewer7
wave7
speech-recognition7
matlab6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
parrell/FACTS
Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
carrien/free-speech
Jun 2018 - Aug 2022
Analysis and plotting code for speech neuroimaging experiments.
Contributions:6 reviews, 86 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 2 months
neuroimagingpythonneuroimaging-experimentsspeech-recognitionplotting
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