Karl Schmitt
Associate Professor & Program Coordinator For Data Analytics
Valparaiso, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolKarl Schmitt is an associate professor and program coordinator for Data Analytics with 11 years of experience applying data science across education, traffic control, environmental micro-climate analysis, and marketing. He designs curricula and launched new undergraduate and graduate data science programs, having created six courses spanning visualization, optimization, data mining, and computational linear algebra. Karl blends academic research (Ph.D. in Scientific Computing) with hands-on project management and mentoring, shepherding interdisciplinary teams from concept to deployed analysis. He has a track record of translating complex scientific computing methods into practical classroom and applied solutions that serve communities and institutions. Based in Valparaiso, Indiana, he brings a rare mix of rigorous theory and practical systems thinking, informed by earlier work in live technical production that sharpens his operational focus. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic educator who improves both the world and the practice of data science through thoughtful curriculum and real-world projects.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Physics, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Physics, Cum Laude at Wittenberg UniversityPh.D., Scientific Computing, Ph.D., Scientific Computing at University of Maryland
Github Skills (73)
regression10
random-forest10
clustering10
classification10
visual-programming10
orange10
pandas9
data-visualization9
network-graph9
textbook9
python9
visualization9
machine-learning9
data-mining9
scikit-learn9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Pelonza/ga_with_communities_for_contig_orientation
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:12 PRs, 154 pushes, 13 branches in 26 days
solvegenomepythongeneticgenetic-algorithms
Pelonza/Graph_Inference
Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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