Chris Kucharczyk
Lead Data Scientist
England, 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
12 years of employment as a software developer
New Canaan High SchoolCalifornia Institute of TechnologyB.S. Physics, B.S. Physics at Stanford University
Github Skills (48)
data-science10
machine-learning10
cookiecutter10
matrix-factorization10
collaborative-filtering10
ai10
recommender-system10
pathlib10
recommendation-system9
descriptor9
python8
similarity8
meta8
artificial-intelligence7
amazon-s37
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chrisjkuch/chrisjkuch.github.io
Mar 2017 - Dec 2023
Contributions:45 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 10 months
scienceforamerica/scipeds
Nov 2024 - Dec 2025
A Python package for working with IPEDS data
Contributions:4 releases, 27 reviews, 48 PRs in 1 year
pythonipeds
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