Terry Conlon
Co-Founder at Alia Education
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTerry Conlon is a data scientist and technology leader with eight years of experience, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO at Alia Education and on the Applied Machine Learning team at Maxar Technologies. He holds a PhD from Columbia University where his research in the Sustainable Engineering Lab combined energy system modeling, optimization, geospatial analytics, computer vision, and machine learning to explore transitions in places as diverse as Ethiopia and New York State. Terry’s work blends academic rigor with practical engineering—locating irrigated cropland via computer vision to estimate energy needs and building cost-optimization models for renewable integration and climate planning. Based in New York City, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective that bridges field-scale geospatial insight and systems-level optimization. Beyond conventional ML roles, he has a proven knack for translating complex, data-driven research into operational tech products and startup strategy. More on his projects and reproducible analyses can be found on his personal website.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E. Candidate Mechanical Engineering, B.S.E. Candidate Mechanical Engineering at Duke UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Energy Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Energy Engineering at Columbia University
Github Skills (19)
geometry7
python6
mesh6
fusion5
ieee5
dse4
parameterized3
power-systems2
netmiko2
capacity2
napalm2
classification2
ospf2
cisco2
yang2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tconlon/ieee_grss_dse
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
2021 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest Track DSE
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 month
ieeedsedata-fusionfusion
tconlon/nys-cem
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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