Daniel Wood
Lead Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Wood is a Lead Data Scientist with a decade of experience applying full-stack data science to digital health, particularly in commercial and Medicare insurance, maternity/fertility, and neurology. He combines a PhD in Neuroscience and an MA in Philosophy to deliver statistically rigorous experimentation, causal inference, and predictive models that have driven millions in medical cost savings. At Aetna he built and led neurology and maternity Next Best Action portfolios, engineered platforms for instant authorizations and knowledge graphs, and deployed high-recall clinical risk models in production. Comfortable bridging research and product, he pairs electrophysiology and computational neuroscience expertise with hands-on engineering (FastAPI, D3.js) and team leadership. Off the clock he’s an avid caver and former studio guitarist—an unusual blend that underscores his appetite for tight technical challenges and unconventional thinking.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Neuroscience at Western UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.) Philosophy, Master of Arts (M.A.) Philosophy at Brigham Young University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (11)
lds8
prediction-model5
prediction5
nonlinear4
react4
julia4
python3
sklearn3
machine-learning2
time-series2
forecasting2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
danielkentwood/NERF
Oct 2016 - Apr 2020
Nonlinear Estimation of Receptive Fields
Contributions:29 commits, 4 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 6 months
receptive-fieldsnonlinearestimationfieldsjulia
danielkentwood/vis3DConnect
Sep 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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