James Gaboardi
Associate R&D Scientist
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJames Gaboardi is a PhD-level Associate R&D Scientist with 11 years of experience applying open-source software engineering to spatiotemporal and network-based population modeling. Based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he develops research-grade tools for synthetic population generation, digital twin modeling, and spatial network–centric human mobility analysis that bridge GIS, spatial data science, and operations research. He has deep hands-on experience with Python geocomputation ecosystems (pysal) and high-performance spatial workflows on Linux/PBS clusters, gained through prior NSF-funded census geography and restricted-data projects. Known for translating rigorous research into reproducible software, he combines academic rigor from a top GIScience PhD with practical engineering discipline—an affable operator who thrives on solving computationally and ethically complex spatial problems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Geography, 3.917, PhD, Geography, 3.917 at Florida State UniversityCAD Foundations Certificate, Drafting & Design Technology, 4.0, CAD Foundations Certificate, Drafting & Design Technology, 4.0 at Tallahassee Community CollegeBA, Liberal Studies (Marketing, Sociology, Foreign Languages), 3.88, BA, Liberal Studies (Marketing, Sociology, Foreign Languages), 3.88 at University of Central FloridaItalian Language/Culture, Italian Language/Culture at The Mediterannean Center for Arts & SciencesVanguard High School
English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (200)
measurement10
tiles10
choropleth10
python10
exploratory10
network-analysis10
solver10
forge10
weighted10
topological-data-analysis10
regression10
geography10
spatial10
scientific-computing10
optimization10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pysal/governance
Feb 2019 - Aug 2024
PySAL Governance
Contributions:6 reviews, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 6 months
pythonpysalgovernance
jGaboardi/help
Feb 2019 - May 2023
The place to ask questions about and get help with the PySAL project.
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
placepythonpysalget-helpask
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