Nick Shawen
Lead Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Shawen is a Lead Data Scientist in Chicago with a decade of experience applying machine learning and biomedical engineering to healthcare problems. He combines academic rigor—MS in Biomedical Engineering and published research—with hands-on production work building custom Python tooling, database architectures, and wearable-sensor analytics. His background spans clinical-facing roles and research: from developing infant motor-assessment metrics and smartwatch-based Parkinson’s datasets to deploying fall-detection models on Android that outperformed prior literature. At Health Care Service Corporation he progressed from senior to lead data scientist, directing small teams and translating complex signals into actionable clinical insights. Colleagues describe him as a researcher-practitioner who leverages personal clinical training to design more realistic data collection and evaluation strategies.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Biomedical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University
Github Skills (21)
portable7
java7
gradient7
machine-learning7
scalable6
distributed-systems6
python6
scala6
xgboost6
spark6
dataflow5
big-data4
boosting4
dask4
hadoop4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Luke3D/MC10Stroke
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:77 commits, 54 pushes in 10 months
nshawen/SkyFall_GLM
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:183 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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