Matt Oddo
PHD Candidate
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Oddo is a PhD candidate in Information Visualization at UBC with eight years of interdisciplinary experience bridging network science, HCI, and environmental data. His thesis, "Network Visualization with Invariant Plots," introduced novel data structures and encodings for non-attributed graphs, and produced an IEEE TVCG paper on the Census-Stub Invariant Descriptor. He combines rigorous quantitative methods with qualitative fieldwork—previously reconstructing pre-urban coastal habitats using novel 3D data fusion and k-nearest smoothing to reveal significant ecological loss. As president of UBC's CSGSA he launched the campus chapter of the Three-Minute Thesis, reflecting a strong commitment to science communication and community-building. Matt’s background in geosciences and data science enables him to translate complex topologies into actionable visual and computational tools for research and applied domains.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Master of Science - MS, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (31)
graph-algorithms8
network-analysis7
sublime-text7
network-graph7
python7
graph-theory7
complex-networks6
graph-visualization6
graph-analysis6
r-package6
interpretable-machine-learning6
igraph5
textmate5
sublime5
mathematics5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dirediredock/IcosphereTileEarth
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:50 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
dirediredock/dirediredock.github.io
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Contributions:421 pushes in 10 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
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