Christopher Thissen
Senior Data Scientist
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Thissen is a Senior Data Scientist with 11 years of experience building machine learning models and production-grade code, currently applying those skills at Vectra AI in Washington, D.C. He holds a PhD from Yale and combines deep statistical rigor with practical engineering—proficient in Python, PySpark, deep learning, and ETL automation. His background includes leading cross-functional teams and serving as principal investigator on DARPA-linked cyber security and human-machine collaboration projects that blended graph analytics, game theory, and synthetic dataset generation. Christopher routinely ships end-to-end ML systems (Docker, shell, APIs) and has experience recruiting senior technical talent and presenting complex results to diverse stakeholders. Notably, he has translated academic research into operational threat detection pipelines, demonstrating a rare ability to move from theory to resilient production.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Yale UniversityB.S., College of Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, B.S., College of Engineering, Summa Cum Laude at University of Notre Dame
English
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Github Skills (6)
crystallography9
matlab9
texture8
quantitative8
toolbox7
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cthissen/Drex-MATLAB
Apr 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
cthissen/errorbarxy
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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