Summary
Brian Vegetabile is a Staff Data Scientist and PhD statistician with 11 years of experience applying causal inference and statistical machine learning to real-world observational problems across policy, science, and product domains. At LinkedIn he drives systems and marketplace understanding, blending forecasting, anomaly detection, and root-cause analysis with rigorous causal methods to inform operational decision-making. His research background at RAND and UC Irvine emphasizes interpretable and explainable ML, exploring how explainability tools change model understanding and downstream decisions. Trained as an aerospace engineer and systems engineer early in his career, he brings a systems-thinking perspective and strong computational skills (Bayesian modeling with Stan, Python) to scalable applied-research problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering at Penn State University
California Institute of Technology
University of California, Irvine