Nick Lucius
Commissioner And Chief Information Officer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolNick Lucius is a technology and data leader who serves as Commissioner and Chief Information Officer for the City of Chicago, leveraging a decade of public-sector experience to modernize services across transportation, public safety, health, and human services. Trained as both a lawyer (JD with an IP certificate) and a computer scientist (MS in data analytics/bioinformatics), he blends legal, technical, and design thinking to craft practical, compliant solutions for complex government problems. He has a track record of building and leading large teams, standing up data analytics practices, and implementing technology and policy changes for four mayors and two governors. His published work applies data analytics to biology and public health and he has written on privacy and legal implications of emerging tech—an unusual mix that informs risk-aware innovation. Based in Chicago, he is known for turning regulatory and operational constraints into opportunities for safer, more efficient urban systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
JD Certificate in Intellectual Property Law, JD Certificate in Intellectual Property Law at DePaul University College of LawMS Computer Science (Data Analytics Algorithms Bioinformatics), MS Computer Science (Data Analytics Algorithms Bioinformatics) at DePaul UniversityBA Psychology Political Science, BA Psychology Political Science at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (39)
geofencing10
ecology10
open-science10
soil10
socrata10
r10
soda10
throttling10
data-api10
dataframe10
open-data10
mds9
visualization9
posix9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Chicago/buildings
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
A project to create a simple interface for visualizing building data.
Contributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 1 year 6 months
visualizingreactdata-visualizationvisualization
Chicago/clear-water-app
Jun 2017 - May 2019
Generate water quality predictions for Chicago beaches, and upload to https://data.cityofchicago.org/Parks-Recreation/Beach-E-coli-Predictions/xvsz-3xcj
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 11 months
parkschicagopythonrecreationmachine-learning
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