Derek Doran
Machine Intelligence Branch Head at Georgia Tech Research Institute
Dayton, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Doran is a machine intelligence leader and research engineer with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and applied AI, currently heading the Machine Intelligence Branch at Georgia Tech Research Institute. He combines a PhD in Computer Science with faculty experience as an associate and adjunct professor at Wright State University, bringing rigorous research methods to operational ML and devops teams. Derek has led R&D and technology strategy in industry roles—including Tenet3®—and held international fellowships such as a Fulbright in cybersecurity, reflecting a global perspective on critical infrastructure. His background spans social-sensing, network analytics, and anomaly detection from early work at Bell Labs and ABB to production-focused perception and emergency-response applications. Equally comfortable mentoring scientists and shipping operational systems, he is known for turning complex probabilistic models into practical, deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science & Engineering, PhD Computer Science & Engineering at University of Connecticut
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Github contributions (5)
derk--/derk--.github.io
May 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
derk--/atrc-pytorch
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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