Rainer Hilscher
Senior Research Data Scientist
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRainer Hilscher is a Senior Research Data Scientist with over a decade of experience applying simulation modeling, synthetic data, and AI methods to public health and social systems. Based in Raleigh, NC and holding a PhD in computer science, he blends infectious and chronic disease modeling with genAI, knowledge graphs, and NLP to inform health interventions and systematic reviews. At RTI and prior research institutes he has led computational modeling, grant-driven projects, and multiagent systems research, consistently translating complex models into actionable insights. Notably, his background in cultural science and English literature gives him an uncommon strength in communicating technical results to diverse stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of SussexMA, Cultural Science, MA, Cultural Science at European-University ViadrinaBA, English Literature, BA, English Literature at Miami University
English, German
Github Skills (5)
json9
diabetes8
json-schema8
owl6
rdf5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
smashhiteu/smashHitCore
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
smashHitCore Ontology documentation
Contributions:31 commits, 23 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 4 months
obofoundryontology-documentationowlrdf
RainerHilscher/improbable_boxes
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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