Christopher Simpkins
Assistant Professor Of Computer Science at The MIT Press
Marietta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Simpkins is an assistant professor of computer science and seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years building production-scale AI, data, and cloud systems across academia and industry. He combines deep research experience in reinforcement learning and adaptive systems (PhD, Georgia Tech) with hands-on delivery—leading globe-scale microservices, Spark ETL pipelines, and AI strategy at organizations like The Weather Company/IBM and Sierra Wireless. A polyglot developer skilled in Scala, Java, and Python (with working C and emerging Rust/Go/Julia), he also mentors and grows engineering talent, having taught thousands of students and led teams whose alumni now work at top tech firms. Fluent in German and conversational French, he blends international teaching experience (study abroad co-director in Berlin) with editorial work reviewing ML textbooks for The MIT Press—an uncommon mix of technical, pedagogical, and communication strengths.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Southern Polytechnic State UniversityPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS, BS at United States Air Force Academy
German, French
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Github Skills (11)
python7
ipython7
pandas6
data-analysis5
classifier5
data-science5
data-visualization5
ibm-cloud4
machine-learning3
obsidian3
ant1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dr-cs/intro-oop-java
May 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:34 commits in 6 months
dr-cs/course-tools
Aug 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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