Christina Knudson
Lead Data Scientist
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristina Knudson is a Lead Data Scientist in Minneapolis with a PhD in Statistics and a decade of experience translating statistical research into production analytics and ML solutions. She combines industry leadership at CleanChoice Energy with independent work as an R package developer and educator—her glmm package has been downloaded tens of thousands of times and her YouTube teaching has amassed over 1.4 million views. Formerly an academic faculty member, she taught advanced statistical theory and predictive modeling while advising interdisciplinary research teams and supervising student projects. Christina is skilled at productionizing statistical methods, building reproducible R tooling, and making complex methods accessible to practitioners and learners alike. Her background in both academic research and hands-on productization gives her a rare ability to move innovations from theory to impact.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at Carleton CollegeUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Spanish
Github Skills (9)
variable-selection9
r-package9
mixed-models9
linear-models9
predictive-modeling8
speaker3
machine-learning2
nlp2
deep-learning2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
knudson1/stableGR
Jun 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:122 commits, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
knudson1/glmm
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
R package for generalized linear mixed models
Contributions:41 commits, 6 PRs, 64 pushes in 4 years 1 month
r-packagegeneralized-linear-mixed-modelslinear-modelslinearlinear-mixed-models
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