Kyle Cranmer
David R. Anderson Director at UW–Madison Data Science Institute
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Cranmer is a physicist-turned-data-science leader who directs the Data Science Institute at UW–Madison and holds professorships in Physics, Computer Science, and Statistics. He helped discover the Higgs boson and pioneered statistical and analysis-system methodologies now standard in high-energy physics, then translated that expertise into machine learning research, simulation-based inference, and reproducible scientific workflows. A NeurIPS keynote speaker and former Meta visiting scientist, he bridges mechanistic simulation and modern AI to create new scientific discovery paradigms. Known for shaping analysis architectures (data formats, software frameworks, compute/storage), he continues to use particle physics as a testbed for innovations that scale to broader data-science problems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.A., Physics, Mathematics, B.A., Physics, Mathematics at Rice Universityhigh school diploma, high school diploma at Arkansas School for Math and Science (ASMS)
Github Skills (200)
high-energy-physics10
open-access10
sqlalchemy10
python10
energy10
pure-python10
physics10
statistical-inference10
flask10
wordcloud10
journal10
statistics10
snl-applications10
static-site10
cls10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cranmer/iris-hep.github.io-source
Feb 2020 - May 2024
Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics
Contributions:58 pushes, 26 branches in 4 years 3 months
physicshigh-energy-physicshigh-energyinnovationinstitute
cranmer/look-elsewhere-2d
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 31 pushes in 3 months
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