Nate Bailey
Director Special Projects, Customer Experience at Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolNate Bailey is a transportation researcher and strategic initiatives manager with 12 years of experience applying operations research to urban mobility challenges, currently leading strategic initiatives at WMATA in Washington, D.C. He holds an M.S. from MIT and UC Berkeley and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Transportation, where his work has focused on the system-level impacts of automated vehicles and dynamic ridesharing under travel-time uncertainty. Nate combines rigorous simulation and optimization skills—agent-based modeling, random utility models, and simulation-based signal timing optimization—with hands-on data engineering from prior work at Caltrans and MIT. He translates academic findings into actionable transit policy and business value for agency partners, with a track record of designing surveys, building analytic tools, and publishing results. Colleagues know him for bridging deep technical methods and pragmatic implementation in large public-sector mobility systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Transportation, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Transportation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (13)
algorithm6
stochastic6
agent-based-modeling6
python6
sorting6
logistics5
javascript5
simulation4
agent-based-simulation3
modeling2
agent2
on-demand2
mobility2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nbailey/mit-curling-www
Jan 2016 - Aug 2021
MIT Curling website
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
curlingjavascriptmit
slc577/t-club-www
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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