Gonzalo Rivero
Director, Data Lab
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolGonzalo Rivero is a social scientist and data science leader with 11 years of experience building research-to-practice teams and operationalizing AI/ML in mission-driven organizations. Currently founding and directing WMATA’s Data Lab, he leads applied AI research, academic partnerships (including long-term work with MIT), and modernization of transit analytics and infrastructure. Previously he scaled Pew Research Center’s Data Labs into a professional unit, set organization-wide generative AI policy, and democratized advanced methods across a major nonpartisan research institution. His background spans federal contracting and commercial research settings where he built ML practices for multimodal data, causal inference, and MLOps across public health, education, transportation, and justice domains. Trained as a political scientist (PhD-level), he blends rigorous social science methods with practical deployment experience to ensure responsible, impact-driven AI.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government at New York University
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Github Skills (15)
nltk7
nlp7
dendrogram6
slack-api6
machine-learning6
odoo6
slack6
forloop6
stata6
python6
dataframe6
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natural-language-processing6
statistics3
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
griverorz/griverorz.github.io
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:152 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
ceopinio/ceo-estimacions
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:114 commits in 1 month
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