Nicholas Wagner
Chief Executive Officer at Learning Journey AI
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Wagner is a CEO and founder focused on workforce AI literacy, drawing on a decade of experience at the intersection of materials science, data science, and national security. He previously led interdisciplinary research at IDA to evaluate LLMs for defense contexts and shaped AI R&D policy and program evaluation as an AAAS STPF fellow at NSF. Trained as a materials and data scientist with a Northwestern PhD and hands-on industry internships at Google and Los Alamos, he blends technical depth with programmatic strategy. Nicholas builds practical learning platforms that translate frontier AI capabilities into workplace skills while cultivating communities that tackle both policy and technical challenges. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of turning complex research into actionable analytics and newsletters that inform senior leaders and practitioner communities.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science and Engineering at Arizona State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Northwestern University
English
Github Skills (20)
python10
materials-informatics10
science10
machine-learning9
data-mining9
pymatgen9
classifier7
supercomputer6
defense5
representations3
universe3
data-driven2
genomics2
decision-making2
etl2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nawagner/AI-reading-list-for-policy-people
Dec 2020 - May 2026
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
MTD-group/Job-Scripts
Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
Scripts for submitting VASP calculations to Quest, Carbon, and Stampede supercomputers.
Contributions:86 commits, 5 PRs, 78 pushes in 3 years
supercomputer
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