Dmitry Gorodnichy
Executive, By-Laws & Policies Committee Chair at Ottawa University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDmitry Gorodnichy is a senior data scientist and research leader with a PhD-level background in computer science and applied mathematics, bringing decades of research experience and eight years in senior data science roles at the Canada Border Services Agency. He designs and delivers production-ready data engineering and AI solutions—ranging from deduplication, web crawling and topic modelling to biometric system evaluation and border-wait prediction—while also building R packages and training programs to raise organizational capability. An experienced manager and collaborator, he has led multidisciplinary teams, co-founded a tech startup (IVIM) that commercialized novel video recognition, and continues to co-supervise students as an adjunct professor. He blends deep academic rigor (early neural-network face recognition and robotics vision work) with practical government-facing applications and policy influence, currently chairing the By-Laws & Policies Committee at PIPSC IPFPC. Known for making data science more accessible, he runs community learning initiatives like “Use R!” and an R101 tutorial, reflecting a rare mix of hands-on prototyping, open tooling, and institutional leadership.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), GPA A+, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), GPA A+ at University of AlbertaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational and Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational and Applied Mathematics at Glushkov Intitute of Cybernetics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, KievMaster of Science (MSc), Applied Mathematics, With Distinction (Cum Laude), Master of Science (MSc), Applied Mathematics, With Distinction (Cum Laude) at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
French, Ukrainian, Russian, English
Github Skills (28)
r-package10
region10
cran10
r9
frame9
rstudio7
shiny7
web-development5
rmarkdown5
knitr5
machine-learning5
reactive5
interoperability5
markdown5
pandoc4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
open-canada/r4gc
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 31 pushes in 2 months
open-canada/UseR
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
R for Government of Canada
Contributions:70 commits, 1 PR, 52 pushes in 7 months
r-packagegovernmentrstatsgovernment-of-canada
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