Phil Killewald
Lead Data Scientist
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Killewald is a Lead Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying computational physics, simulation, and data-driven methods to aerospace and defense problems. He progressed from Ph.D. research analyzing LHC detector data and building real-time C++ hardware interfaces to leading development of large-scale radar and geolocation simulation libraries at Lincoln Laboratory, and now drives analytic products and teams at Mathematica. Phil blends deep domain expertise in physics and high-performance C++ with practical data science leadership, regularly translating complex modeling results into actionable briefings for stakeholders. Based in Greater Boston, he’s comfortable bridging research-grade simulation and production analytics—an engineer who moves from low-level hardware and performance analysis up to product-facing, decision-ready insights.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at The Ohio State University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (82)
fractions10
mixed-models10
incremental-game10
interval-arithmetic9
linear-models9
julia9
science9
statistical-models9
extension-methods9
rational-numbers9
stream8
statistics8
complex-numbers8
programming-language8
health8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
reallyasi9/secret-santa
Dec 2017 - Apr 2021
Simple Secret Santa randomizing script to pick names out of a virtual hat and send emails notifying everybody.
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 5 months
pythonemailspickhatsanta
reallyasi9/b1gpickem
Aug 2021 - Oct 2024
Tools and resources underpinning B1G PickEm code
Contributions:2 releases, 16 PRs, 136 pushes in 3 years 1 month
pickemminecraft
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