Nick Thieme
Senior Applied Scientist at Columbia University
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Thieme is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon and a computational journalist with a decade of experience building AI/ML systems and robust statistical methods for socially consequential problems. He combines production ML expertise with investigative data analysis—having led projects that changed state laws, prompted federal reimbursements, and exposed public-data misreporting. A former Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and adjunct professor who taught practical LLM and GAM applications at Columbia, he bridges newsroom storytelling, policy impact, and rigorous methodology. His background spans biotech and astronomy research, legal-technical analysis of pharmaceutical patent gaming, and building scalable pipelines for NLP and computer vision. Colleagues rely on him to translate thorny, messy datasets into defensible models and clear narratives that influence policy and public understanding. Based in Falls Church, VA, he brings a rare mix of academic depth, newsroom urgency, and production-grade ML engineering.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkMaster of Science (M.S.), Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (M.S.), Applied Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteB.S Statistics, Minor: Mathematics, B.S Statistics, Minor: Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (5)
broadband3
python2
jekyll2
internet1
pbs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nthieme/AJC_work
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
The-Baltimore-Banner/nthieme
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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