Clark Alexander
Chief Science Officer at Argentum AI
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolClark Alexander is a mathematician-turned-technology leader with nine years of applied experience building algorithms at the intersection of AI, quantum computing, and high-dimensional mathematics. Currently serving as Chief Science Officer at ARX while holding senior scientific leadership roles at Argentum AI and advising multiple organizations, he designs systems that translate modern mathematical theory into production-grade code. His career spans academic posts and industry R&D where he has shipped novel approaches in time-series clustering, quantum-inspired algorithms, and feature selection—often implementing neural networks and optimization methods from first principles. He is especially skilled at marrying deep theoretical tools (spectral graph theory, information geometry, random matrix statistics) with practical needs in fintech, healthtech, logistics, and drug discovery. Based in Evanston, he also teaches and mentors, valuing the feedback loop between learning and instruction that sharpens both research and product outcomes. A self-described quantum enthusiast who admits coding is a work in progress, he nonetheless repeatedly delivers empirically effective, mathematically driven solutions.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics at Northwestern UniversityDobyns BennettEFM
English, Spanish, French, Italian, lebanese arabic, Persian, Dutch, Tamil, German, Japanese
Github Skills (4)
splines3
mixed-models3
julia2
xgboost1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
NC-Elbow/Elbow-room
Sep 2016 - Oct 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
NC-Elbow/DPU140
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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