Burak Himmetoglu
Director Data Science
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBurak Himmetoglu is a Director of Data Science based in California with over a decade of experience building and operationalizing machine learning systems in healthcare. He leads teams that translate business needs into high-impact ML products—most notably systems that contributed to roughly $720M/year in healthcare savings through fraud, waste, and abuse detection. Trained as a physicist (Ph.D.), he brings deep quantitative rigor and HPC/big-data expertise to production ML, from model development through ModelOps, monitoring, and deployment. His background spans computational biology, materials discovery, and cloud-scale pipelines, enabling him to bridge domain science and scalable engineering. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex scientific problems into auditable, production-ready solutions that balance innovation with robust operations.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Bilkent University
Github Skills (15)
lstm-neural-networks10
classify10
lstm9
keras9
human-activity-recognition8
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
tensorflow6
simple-api6
api3
python3
data-science2
scikit-learn2
data-wrangling2
scikit2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bhimmetoglu/talks-and-lectures
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
bhimmetoglu/datasciencecom-r-tutorial
Aug 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
wranglingdata-wranglingscrapingweb-scraping
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