Kjell Konis
Senior Quantitative Analyst
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKjell Konis is a Senior Quantitative Analyst in Seattle with 17 years of applied quantitative and statistical experience spanning academia and institutional investing. Trained at Oxford (DPhil in Computational Statistics) and the University of Washington, he blends deep probabilistic modeling and R/S+ programming with hands-on implementation for portfolio management at the University of Washington Investment Management Company. His background includes postdoctoral research in mathematical statistics and practical tool-building—such as an R package for the Hugin Decision Engine—bridging Bayesian methods and real-world decision systems. He has taught and developed graduate courses in computational finance, showing an ability to translate advanced methods into curriculum and production analytics. Known for combining rigorous research with production-ready code, he frequently operates at the intersection of statistical theory, software tooling, and financial risk management.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, BS, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics at University of WashingtonDPhil, Computational Statistics, DPhil, Computational Statistics at University of Oxford
English, French
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Github Skills (23)
robustness9
hugin9
bayesian-network8
r7
statistics7
ports7
macos6
command-line6
middleware6
database5
r-programming5
macports4
r-package4
cop4
cran4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
huginexpert/RHugin
Jul 2008 - Feb 2017
RHugin is a middleware making it possible to Create Bayesian Networks from the R Programming Language. RHugin is a middleware exposing the HUGIN API to any program written in R. RHugin was originally created by Kjell Konis (kjellpk) but is currently maintained by Hugin Expert.
Contributions:413 commits in 8 years 8 months
bayesian-networkhuginmiddlewarer-programming
kjellpk/fit.models
Jul 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 release, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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