Harsh Pachisia
Data & Policy Lead
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarsh Pachisia is a Data & Policy Lead with eight years of experience applying machine learning and geospatial analysis to public sector challenges across the US and India. He has led and scaled small data science teams, designed dashboards and open-source analytics platforms for state governments, and optimized inspection and leak-detection pipelines for environmental compliance. A UChicago MSc in Computational Analysis & Public Policy and former World Bank data fellow, he blends rigorous causal program evaluation with pragmatic product-focused modeling. His work includes large-scale mobility and satellite imagery projects (processing billions of pings and drainage maps) that directly informed government decision-making. Comfortable moving models from research to production, he also reduces operational costs by substituting proprietary inputs with viable open alternatives. Based in Chicago, he actively seeks roles at the intersection of data science, program evaluation, and policy implementation.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computational Analysis and Public Policy, 3.9/4.0 (Honors), Master of Science - MS, Computational Analysis and Public Policy, 3.9/4.0 (Honors) at Harris School of Public Policy at the University of ChicagoBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business and Political Economy, 3.85/4.00, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business and Political Economy, 3.85/4.00 at New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of BusinessHigh School Diploma, Business/Commerce, General, High School Diploma, Business/Commerce, General at The Cathedral and John Connon School
English, Hindi
Github Skills (1)
mobility4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
uchicago-mscapp-projects/snow-lm
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
30122-project-snow-lm created by GitHub Classroom
Contributions:1 review, 125 commits, 32 PRs in 20 days
hvpachisia/Urban-Mobility
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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