Chris Kucharczyk
Senior Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Kucharczyk is a Senior Data Scientist with nine years of experience building tools that help people interact with and understand data, currently applying that focus at DrivenData from Chicago. He combines a rigorous academic background—BS in Physics from Stanford and PhD work in Materials Science at Caltech—with hands-on product and design experience from several roles at IDEO, where he blended data science with human-centered design. His career includes applied research work at LIGO, where he implemented control systems that supported gravitational-wave detection, signaling a strong aptitude for complex instrumentation and real-world impact. Comfortable straddling research, engineering, and design, he excels at turning complex analytical problems into usable tools for nontechnical stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
New Canaan High SchoolCalifornia Institute of TechnologyB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Stanford University
Github Skills (72)
python10
cookiecutter10
standardized10
implicit10
project-structure10
ai10
science10
data-science10
machine-learning10
matrix-factorization10
data-sharing10
collaborative-filtering10
recommender-system9
filtering9
recommendation-system9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chrisjkuch/chrisjkuch.github.io
Mar 2017 - Dec 2023
Contributions:45 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 10 months
drivendataorg/meta-vsc-descriptor-runtime
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
Containerized runtime for the Descriptor Track of the Meta Video Similarity Competition
Contributions:9 reviews, 9 commits, 13 PRs in 6 months
descriptormetaruntimecontainerizeddocker
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