Teaghan O'briain
Senior Data Scientist
Salt Spring Island Electoral Area, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTeaghan O'briain is a Senior Data Scientist with nine years of experience applying AI to education, astronomy, and medical imaging, driven by a mission to give every student access to high-quality learning. Based on a strong physics and medical physics foundation from the University of Victoria and classroom training in secondary education, they bridge research-grade modelling with classroom-ready educational tools. Their background includes AI research at the National Research Council of Canada, teaching roles, and recent hands-on engineering as a freelance AI engineer before joining Playlab AI. Teaghan combines applied research rigor with practical product delivery, often translating complex scientific models into intuitive tools for teachers and learners on Salt Spring Island. A less obvious strength is their dual fluency in pedagogy and technical research, enabling rare cross-domain solutions that scale from lab prototypes to schoolrooms.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Medical Physics, Master of Science - MS, Medical Physics at University of VictoriaBachelor of Education - BEd, Secondary Education and Teaching, Bachelor of Education - BEd, Secondary Education and Teaching at Vancouver Island University
Github Skills (20)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
data-science9
spectra9
tensorflow9
generative9
stellar8
jax8
neural-network8
medical-imaging5
keras5
kaggle4
simulation3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
astroai/starnet
Jan 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:70 commits, 69 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
teaghan/educational-prompt-engineering
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:368 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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