Jonathan Lisic
Principal Data Scientist
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Lisic is a Principal Data Scientist with a Ph.D. in Computational Statistics and over 18 years of experience building statistical and machine learning solutions across healthcare, agriculture, and federal labor statistics. He designs and ships novel ML methods—two patents in progress—and has published research, produced multiple CRAN packages with thousands of monthly downloads, and spoken at major venues like JSM. At Evernorth he develops production AI for clinical conditions, audio/NLP, wearables, and capacity planning, while previously driving methodology and open-source tooling for the USDA and BLS. Jonathan blends deep applied skills in R, C, SQL and neural frameworks with practical survey and GIS expertise, enabling cost-efficient, production-ready analytics for complex, sparse datasets. A former Air Force intelligence analyst and founder of a federal sub-committee bridging data science and IT, he’s as comfortable mentoring teams and explaining models to stakeholders as he is inventing new algorithms. Outside work he’s a coder, GIS user and occasional podcaster who balances technical rigor with a bias for actionable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Statistics, Master's degree Statistics at The University of AkronBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics at Western Washington UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Science and Informatics - Computational Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Science and Informatics - Computational Statistics at George Mason University
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Github Skills (48)
r-package9
kaggle8
classification8
data-mining8
parallel8
r8
shift8
configurations7
gradient7
machine-learning7
mean-shift7
lightgbm7
python7
maps6
decision-tree6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jlisic/meanShiftR
Sep 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 3 years 5 months
mean-shiftshift
jlisic/cdlTools
Jul 2013 - Oct 2022
A set of tools for fetching and using the Cropscape Data Layer in R
Contributions:62 commits, 8 PRs, 66 pushes in 9 years 4 months
r-packagefetchingrstatsdata-layer
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