Jason Wittenbach
Senior Director, Machine Learning at Cepheid
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolJason Wittenbach is a Senior Director of Machine Learning with 11 years of experience applying statistical and mathematical modeling to high-impact domains—from neurobiology and academic research to regulated diagnostics and financial services. He builds and leads cross-functional ML teams that deploy genomics-driven diagnostics and trustworthy, explainable models at scale, and has steered regulatory strategy for ML-based molecular tests. Jason’s background blends a Ph.D. in Physics, postdoctoral neuroimaging and computational modeling, and production ML engineering at Capital One, giving him a rare mix of theoretical rigor and operational delivery. Known for tackling hard noisy-data problems, he translates complex biological and multimodal datasets into validated, production-ready systems while mentoring technical teams and teaching graduate courses in statistical and deep learning.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at Penn State UniversityB.S. Physics and Mathematics, B.S. Physics and Mathematics at University of Notre Dame
Italian, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (82)
image-processing10
spark-ml10
gdscript10
game-engine9
statistics9
scalable9
computer-vision9
python9
game-development9
image9
documentation9
godot8
mass8
scikit-learn8
time-series8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jwittenbach/loadstone
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
jwittenbach/thunder
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:157 pushes, 72 branches in 2 years
data-analysismachine-learningscalesparklarge-scale
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