Geoffrey Legault
Senior Data Scientist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGeoffrey Legault is a Senior Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying rigorous statistical and machine learning methods to ecommerce and ecological problems. Holding a Ph.D. in Statistical Ecology, he specializes in hierarchical Bayesian and frequentist modeling, survival and time-series analysis, and dependence modeling, and is fluent in R and Python. At Getty Images he led development of an Experimentation Platform and tools for automated geo- and A/B/x testing, translating complex analyses into actionable insights for senior leadership. His academic work produced deployable hierarchical models used in government fact sheets and a PNAS spatiotemporal model, highlighting a rare combination of publishable research and production-ready engineering. Comfortable with both theory and production pipelines, he brings domain depth in climate and organismal modeling to business-facing analytics.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Environmental Science, Master's degree, Environmental Science at University of TorontoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Colorado BoulderGithub contributions (5)
lizzieinvancouver/pmm
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 11 comments in 1 year 8 months
legault/Time-variant-SSA
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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