Brian Leahy
Senior Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Leahy is a Senior Data Scientist in Chicago with a PhD in statistical physics and over a decade of experience applying statistical methods and machine vision to real-world problems. He has led computer vision initiatives at Lineage Logistics, building and maintaining a real-time vision application for warehousing operations. His background includes a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard and deep quantitative training from Cornell and the University of Chicago, which inform a principled, physics-rooted approach to data modeling. Programming in Python since 2010, he combines production-focused engineering with rigorous research instincts to move models from prototype to deployed systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges academic rigor and operational reliability, especially when scaling vision systems under real-time constraints.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Cornell UniversityBachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at University of Chicago
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
light-scattering10
extraction10
python10
numpy-arrays10
matplotlib10
notebook8
numpy8
jupyter8
pytorch7
ipython7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
data-science5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
briandleahy/holopy
May 2019 - May 2021
Hologram processing and light scattering in python
Contributions:63 PRs, 152 pushes, 77 branches in 2 years
hologrampythonlightlight-scatteringscattering
briandleahy/clean-code-notes
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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