Matias Kind
Faculty In Residence - Discovery Partners Institute at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMatias Kind is a multidisciplinary data science leader and researcher with 12 years of experience applying machine and deep learning, high-performance computing, and data-intensive methods to astronomy, accounting, and business research. He directs Data Science Research Services at UIUC’s Gies College of Business, serves as Faculty in Residence at the Discovery Partners Institute, and holds research professorships at NCSA and in Astronomy and Accountancy. His background as an astrophysicist informs a track record of building scalable scientific infrastructure—open-source tools and data-release pipelines for petascale astronomical surveys—that hundreds of scientists rely on. Matias combines hands-on expertise in cloud-native and distributed computing (Kubernetes, containers, scientific cloud) with mentorship and leadership of large interdisciplinary teams. He is particularly adept at translating complex, streaming and image-based scientific data into production-ready analytics and platforms that accelerate discovery.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Astrophysics, Bachelor’s Degree Astrophysics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astrophysics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (78)
isolation-forest10
python10
astronomy10
interpreter10
sql-query10
csv10
kmeans10
des10
sql9
multiclass-classification9
data-access9
anomaly-detection9
large-image9
google-keep8
xterm8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mgckind/flimview
Jul 2019 - May 2020
flimview: A Lightweight python package for FLIM image processing
Contributions:55 commits, 8 pushes, 1 tag in 9 months
mgckind/GraphMaker
Sep 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 3 months
diagramsjavascriptlinksdiagramtypescript
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