Jimmy Hickey
Manager, AI Machine Learning at UnitedHealth Group
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Hickey is a Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience applying statistical and deep learning methods across healthcare, national defense, and research environments. He holds advanced training in statistics (PhD) and has published and deployed novel transfer learning and time-to-event prediction methods that emphasize interpretability and uncertainty quantification. At Sandia he optimized statistical computing and built RNN-based signal processing for defense applications, and at Optum he continues to translate research-grade models into production. He co-founded a community analytics nonprofit, demonstrating a habit of turning data into actionable, human-centered insights, and he has a strong background building high-performance bioinformatics and embedded systems earlier in his career. Notably, his work consistently bridges rigorous theory and practical implementation across Python, R, Julia, and low-level C/C++ environments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics at North Carolina State UniversityComputer Science (BS) Physics (BS), Computer Science (BS) Physics (BS) at Winona State University
English
Stackoverflow
53reputation
414reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (27)
piano8
survival-analysis8
r8
tonejs7
midi7
mcmc7
bayesian-inference7
bayesian-methods7
julia6
python6
rstudio6
probabilistic-programming6
database5
machine-learning5
scikit-learn4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
JimmyJHickey/grad-scripts
May 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:132 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
JimmyJHickey/some-little-configs
Sep 2019 - Apr 2026
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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