Nick Kunz
Senior Data Scientist
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolNick Kunz is a Senior Data Scientist with seven years of experience applying analytics, statistics, and machine learning to urbanism, defense, economics, and engineering problems. He has held data science roles at Deloitte and Microsoft and brings domain fluency from prior military and civil service, including time with the 75th Ranger Regiment and public-focused fellowships. Trained in urban planning and urban analytics (Columbia, Harvard) and pursuing a PhD in Systems Engineering at Cornell, he bridges rigorous academic methods with practical, impact-driven modeling. Known for tackling complex, cross-disciplinary datasets, he blends policy-minded thinking with production-grade analytics to inform decision-making in both public and private sectors. An inactive musician who once worked on North American tours, he brings creative problem-solving and team-oriented discipline to his technical work.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Non-Degree, Urban Planning, Non-Degree, Urban Planning at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Philosophy, Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, Systems Engineering at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science (Hons.), Housing & Urban Development, Bachelor of Science (Hons.), Housing & Urban Development at Barrett, The Honors CollegeMaster of Science, Urban Planning, Urban Analytics, Master of Science, Urban Planning, Urban Analytics at Columbia University
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Github Skills (30)
statistics10
synthetic10
sampling10
smote10
regression10
imbalanced-data10
synthetic-data10
data-science9
python9
machine-learning9
data-analysis9
scikit8
scikit-learn8
cross-validation8
bayesian7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nickkunz/idling
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
GRD-TRT-BUF-4I: Ground Truth Buffer for Idling
Contributions:44 PRs, 142 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
civic-techrealtimetransportationurban-data-science
nickkunz/nestedhyperline
Apr 2020 - Feb 2025
Nested Cross-Validation for Bayesian Optimized Linear Regularization
Contributions:10 PRs, 131 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
validationvalidationslinearschema-validationnested-cross-validation
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