Jesse Spencer-smith
Associate Dean For Partnerships And Innovation
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Spencer-Smith is a data science and AI leader who bridges academic research, healthcare, and industry partnerships as Chief Data Scientist and Associate Dean for Partnerships and Innovation at Vanderbilt. With a PhD in Cognitive Science and a BS in Computer Science, he builds and mentors cross-disciplinary teams, teaches graduate AI courses, and advises executives on deploying and developing novel AI models. He previously founded HCA Healthcare’s first enterprise data science function, scaling capability through training, tooling, and embedded consulting across clinical and business domains. His research and publications span unexpected domains—from astrophysics and archaeology to negotiation—illustrating a talent for applying ML to diverse, real-world problems. He’s as comfortable writing production code in R and Python as he is presenting to government and executive audiences, and he started writing software commercially while still in high school.
8 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MeetupsPhD, Cognitive Science/Psychology, PhD, Cognitive Science/Psychology at Indiana University BloomingtonBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Florida
french (can read, not a fluent speaker)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
docker6
data-science2
tableau2
dashboard2
data-visualization1
deep-learning1
tensorflow1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vanderbilt-data-science/r_analytics_workshop
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
vanderbilt-data-science/dirty-data
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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