Geoffrey Fairchild
Acting Deputy Director, National Security AI Office
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolGeoffrey Fairchild is a computer scientist and AI leader with 13 years of experience applying large-scale data science, heterogeneous data fusion, and spatiotemporal modeling to national security and public health problems. Currently acting Deputy Director of the National Security AI Office at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he shapes AI strategy, HPC investments, and cross-agency collaborations while also leading the Information Systems and Modeling Group. His work spans machine learning, computational epidemiology, NLP, agent-based simulation, and optimization—skills honed building supercomputer-driven simulations and operational analytics pipelines. Geoffrey’s background includes advising USSTRATCOM and developing sentinel disease surveillance systems, reflecting a rare blend of operational relevance and deep technical rigor. Based in Santa Fe, he pairs PhD-level research with program management to move complex, mission-critical AI projects from prototype to deployed capability.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Iowa
American Sign Language, English
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Github Skills (200)
multi-objective-optimization10
chat10
command-line-tool10
act10
torrent10
api10
yelp-fusion-api10
data-science10
static-site-generator10
yelp10
edit-distance10
cms10
python10
cython10
django10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
lanl/pyxDamerauLevenshtein
Apr 2013 - Aug 2022
pyxDamerauLevenshtein implements the Damerau-Levenshtein (DL) edit distance algorithm for Python in Cython for high performance.
Contributions:126 commits, 12 PRs, 87 pushes in 9 years 5 months
pythonedit-distance-algorithmdamerau-levenshteindistanceedit-distance
lanl/yelpapi
Oct 2013 - Jan 2023
yelpapi is a pure Python implementation of the Yelp Fusion API (aka Yelp v3 API).
Contributions:85 commits, 11 PRs, 68 pushes in 9 years 4 months
apipythonyelp-fusionapi-v3python-implementation
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