Jason Hickey
Google Research Africa
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Hickey is a seasoned computer scientist and technology leader who heads Google Research Africa from Accra, bringing decades of experience across AI, weather and climate modeling, and programming languages. With a PhD from Cornell and an unusual blend of academic (Caltech professor) and industry experience (Bellcore, long tenure at Google), he focuses on applying AI to practical challenges in Africa such as food security, weather prediction, and African languages. He combines hands-on software engineering (notably contributions to the Real World OCaml book exploring OCaml’s OO and concurrency features) with strategic research leadership, translating complex models into real-world impact. Based in Mountain View but embedded in Accra’s research ecosystem, he’s known for bridging rigorous academic thinking with production-grade engineering.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Cornell UniversityELPP
Github Skills (8)
object-oriented-programming10
ocaml10
data-structure9
data-structures9
concurrency8
parsing7
text-parsing7
tput7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
realworldocaml/book
Oct 2011 - Jul 2013
V2 of Real World OCaml
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to the Real World OCaml book by adding and modifying examples of object-oriented and imperative programming concepts using OCaml. Their work included implementing various data structures like doubly-linked lists and hash maps, as well as exploring concepts such as memoization, lazy computation, and concurrency. The user's commits also demonstrate experience with input/output operations, parsing, and basic concurrency constructs.
ocamlduneopam
jyh/goes_truecolor
May 2019 - May 2019
Truecolor satellite imagery
Contributions:1 commit, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
satellitesatellite-imagerytruecolorimagery
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