Geoffrey Thompson
Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolGeoffrey Thompson is a data scientist with a PhD in Statistics and eight years of experience applying statistical modeling, clustering, and machine learning to product-focused problems at Cisco and in academia. He blends deep theoretical knowledge of multivariate and unsupervised methods with hands-on implementation in R (and some C), building proofs of concept and production-facing analytics for CX and assurance teams. Prior roles include university teaching and consulting, plus senior HR metrics work where he translated workforce data into strategic decisions—an uncommon bridge between people analytics and advanced ML. Based in Chicago, he’s particularly interested in scalable clustering for large datasets and statistical image processing, bringing both research rigor and practical product impact.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at Iowa State UniversityMS, Mathematics, MS, Mathematics at Roosevelt UniversityBA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at University of Chicago
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (19)
normal8
distributions8
r-package7
unconf7
matrix6
julia5
r4
random-generation3
opencv2
cran2
machine-learning1
python1
security1
crossword1
shadow1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gzt/MixMatrix
Feb 2018 - Sep 2024
A package for matrix normal distributions, matrix t distributions, and discriminant analysis in them
Contributions:1 PR, 627 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 9 months
distributionsdiscriminant-analysisnormalmatrixt-matrix
gzt/fracturematching
May 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.