Michael Levy
Senior Principal Data Scientist
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Levy is a Senior Principal Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying Bayesian modeling, network analysis, and NLP to improve healthcare and social-impact programs. He holds a PhD in Computational Social Science from UC Davis and has built production ML platforms and open-source tools used to assess relationship and clinical outcomes across startups, nonprofits, and enterprise teams. His work spans Meta and GiveDirectly to Atlassian, combining research-grade statistical rigor with practical deployment and teaching—he’s developed and taught machine learning curricula for practitioners. Notably, his academic publications range from Nature Sustainability to Science Advances, and he frequently translates complex network and social-capital metrics into actionable product features. Based in Boulder, he brings a rare blend of ecology-rooted systems thinking and hands-on engineering in R and reproducible analytics.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Social Science: Environmental Policy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Social Science: Environmental Policy at University of California, DavisM.S. Biology - Ecology, M.S. Biology - Ecology at West Virginia UniversityBS Magna Cum Laude Chemistry, BS Magna Cum Laude Chemistry at Fort Lewis College
Github Skills (129)
parser10
knitr10
data-transformation10
r10
dplyr10
stable10
prepare10
development-environment10
ide10
rstudio10
grammar10
journal9
data-wrangling9
open-access9
tidyverse9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
data-lessons/gapminder-R
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:62 commits, 10 PRs, 29 pushes in 6 months
michaellevy/netUtils
Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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