Thomas Sostarics
System Engineer at McMaster-Carr
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Sostarics is a system engineer and cognitive scientist with 10 years of experience applying data-driven experimental methods to prosody and intonational meaning. He designs and executes end-to-end research pipelines, publishes open-source R packages on CRAN, and routinely builds reproducible analyses using tidyverse, targets, and ggplot2. Skilled at teaching and mentoring, he has led workshops and classroom instruction in programming, statistical modeling, and computational linguistics. Thomas combines hands-on systems work at McMaster-Carr with a deep academic background from Northwestern and the University of Chicago, bridging research-grade data practices with production engineering. He is bilingual in English and Japanese, an asset for cross-cultural collaboration and international research.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics at Northwestern UniversityLinguistics, Linguistics at The University of Chicago
English, Japanese
Github Skills (3)
contrast7
statistics6
modeling6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tsostarics/snippets
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:45 pushes in 4 years 9 months
tsostarics/sosprosody
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
Prosody research helpers
Contributions:100 commits, 4 PRs, 65 pushes in 7 months
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