John Burger
Data Scientist & Director
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Burger is a data scientist and director with 10+ years of leadership experience and a multi-decade research career bridging statistical machine learning, computational linguistics, and cybersecurity. He builds prototype systems, large-scale training pipelines, and crowdsourcing workflows to model complex human and language phenomena, and has translated research into licensed technology and patents. At MITRE he led long-running programs in author attribution and domain adaptation for machine translation; today he applies that expertise to operational security analytics at BitSight. Comfortable managing small focused teams and consulting across diverse projects, he combines academic rigor with pragmatism—often harvesting unconventional web and crowd-sourced data to solve hard problems.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Various graduate classes in linguistics, Various graduate classes in linguistics at Brandeis UniversityBS Mathematics Computer Science, BS Mathematics Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityVarious graduate classes in linguistics cognitive science machine learning, Various graduate classes in linguistics cognitive science machine learning at Boston University
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Github Skills (26)
python8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
ip-database8
data-science7
tensorflow7
deep-learning7
configparser6
ip-geolocation6
lookup-table6
tweepy6
geolocation6
xlrd6
twitter6
neural-network5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mitre/hybrid-curation
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
dribnet/lfw_fuel
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
labeled-faces-in-the-wilddatasetcomputer-visionwildconverted
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