Jiří Novák
Data Scientist
Prague Metropolitan Area Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJiří Novák is a data scientist with eight years of experience bridging applied research and production analytics, currently working in Adastra’s Big Data department in Prague. He holds advanced training in statistics (PhD-level studies) and a strong track record in statistical disclosure control, synthetic microdata generation and privacy-preserving methods developed for national statistical offices and academic projects. Proficient in R (tidyverse, data.table, shiny) and Python (pandas, scikit-learn), he builds reproducible tools and interactive apps—examples include a public Shiny demo and an AI chatbot prototype—while contributing to open-source anonymization tooling like sdcMicro. His background spans census data engineering, actuarial modelling and university teaching, giving him a rare combination of operational data pipeline experience and rigorous methodological research. Colleagues value him for turning complex privacy requirements into practical, auditable solutions that scale across research and government settings.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of ZurichMatura, Prospěl s vyznamenáním, Matura, Prospěl s vyznamenáním at Gymnázium, Praha 8, U Libeňského zámku 1Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at University of Economics, Prague
English, Czech, German
Github Skills (41)
r-package9
shiny-apps9
synthetic8
plotly7
visualization7
shiny7
interactive7
python7
regl7
jupyter-notebook7
survey6
ipywidgets6
posters6
declarative6
graph6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Kyoshido/recordSwapping
Sep 2021 - Mar 2024
c++ code for rank-swapping
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
cppswappingoopcpp17
Kyoshido/eRum2020-Image-processing-and-computer-vision-with-R
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:34 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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