Colin Brown
PhD Candidate
Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolColin Brown is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Northern Illinois University with nine years of research and engineering experience spanning national lab and academic environments. He has contributed to projects at Argonne National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility and served as a research assistant at UMass Dartmouth, bringing hands-on experience with high-performance and data-driven computing. Trained in data science from UMass Dartmouth (BS, MS) and grounded in computer science fundamentals from Manchester Community College, he blends rigorous academic training with practical research execution. Colin’s work focuses on translating complex computational problems into reproducible experiments and scalable implementations, often at the intersection of data science and high-performance computing. Colleagues describe him as methodical and curious, with a track record of sustained research contributions through his graduate studies.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Manchester Community CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Northern Illinois UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Github Skills (17)
notebook10
jupyter10
jupyter-kernels10
jupyter-notebook10
python9
kernel9
jupyterlab-extension7
jupyterlab6
dataframes5
dataflow4
ipynb4
parser4
sphinx4
ledger4
dependency-tree3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
colinjbrown/dfkernel
Aug 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:16 PRs, 29 pushes, 27 branches in 5 years 7 months
colinjbrown/dfkernel-1
May 2019 - Feb 2025
A kernel to support Python dataflows in the Jupyter Notebook environment
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
kernelpolarspythondataframesdata-analysis
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