Christopher Galbraith
Senior Research Data Scientist
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Galbraith is a Senior Research Data Scientist with 11 years of experience translating complex data into actionable insights across cybersecurity and cloud platforms. He holds a PhD in Statistics from UC Irvine and has blended academic rigor with industry impact at Obsidian, Mandiant/Google Cloud, and now Google, focusing on machine learning research for security applications. Christopher combines deep probabilistic modeling and experimental design with production-aware thinking, moving models from prototype to operational use in high-stakes environments. He has taught and organized data science initiatives, demonstrating a knack for clear communication and mentoring technical audiences. Based in Philadelphia, he brings a rare mix of theoretical statistical training and hands-on ML engineering that helps teams turn noisy telemetry into defensible decisions. An organizer-turned-practitioner, he often bridges gaps between research, product, and security engineering to deliver measurable risk reduction.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics at South Dakota State UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (29)
r-package9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
python8
deep-learning8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
uci7
tensorflow7
bert7
transformer7
language-model6
transformers6
bluetooth-headset5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
UCIDataScienceInitiative/IDA-with-R
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:174 commits, 18 PRs, 142 pushes in 6 months
r-packagedata-analysisuciworkshopdsi
UCIDataLab/assocr
Aug 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:19 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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