Jacob Usinowicz
Senior Scientist at Four Peaks Environmental Science & Data Solutions
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Usinowicz is a Senior Scientist and Ph.D. biologist with eight years of experience translating quantitative ecology into actionable conservation and management decisions. He builds novel statistical, ML, and population-modeling tools to measure human and climate impacts on biodiversity, with peer-reviewed breakthroughs from ETH Zürich and UBC and large-scale experiment management experience. As a consultant and senior scientist he has scaled data acquisition with NLP/NER, created forecasting tools for public health and watershed management, and developed stakeholder-facing dashboards that turn complex predictions into clear guidance. He is practiced at mentoring and teaching, having supervised multiple graduate students and redesigned curricula to improve learning outcomes. Based in Bellingham, WA, he combines deep theoretical rigor with practical software workflows—simple programs on his GitHub support ecological forecasting and reproducible analyses for real-world decision making.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental Biology/Mathematical Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental Biology/Mathematical Biology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Arts - BA, Human Ecology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Human Ecology at College of the Atlantic
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Github Skills (10)
ecology8
evolution8
keras6
time-series6
predict6
r6
phylogeny3
bayesian2
glmm2
bioinformatics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jusinowicz/info_theory_eco
Jul 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:245 commits, 215 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
jusinowicz/yahara_flashiness
Aug 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:143 pushes, 1 branch, 23 comments in 7 years 3 months
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