Brian Richards
Principal Data Scientist
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Richards is a Principal Data Scientist with a Ph.D. in Physics and a decade of experience turning experimental and observational data into actionable insight using R and reproducible workflows. Based in Charlottesville, he blends deep domain expertise in ultrafast laser/atomic physics and optical alignment with production analytics at HelioCampus, where he progressed from Data Scientist to Principal since 2020. He is an R enthusiast and package contributor who built the starkr package for Stark shift calculations and helped develop the osfr client, reflecting a habit of shipping research-grade tooling. Comfortable with LabVIEW automation, ggplot2 visualizations, and tidyverse pipelines, he excels at bridging complex experimental systems and scalable data products. Colleagues value his mix of rigorous experimental design, clear data storytelling, and hands-on engineering to move ideas from lab notebooks into production analytics.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Physics, Bachelors of Science, Physics at William & MaryHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ocean Lakes High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at University of Virginia
Github Skills (7)
open-science9
reproducible-research9
science8
xray1
ray1
r-package1
datasets1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bgrich/osfr
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
An R package to interface with the Open Science Framework (WORK IN PROGRESS)
Contributions:47 pushes, 18 branches in 4 months
r-packagesciencein-progressrstatsmeta-analysis
bgrich/simplyapproximate-blogdown-website
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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