William Brannon
Research Assistant at MIT Media Lab
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Brannon is a research-focused AI and machine learning practitioner with 13 years of experience bridging political data science and academic research. Based at MIT Media Lab as a Research Assistant while completing an MS and PhD in Media Arts and Sciences, he specializes in LLMs, data-centric AI, and applied modeling developed through both academic projects and industry internships like AWS Applied Science. His background includes leading analytics roles for major political campaigns and organizations, where he translated messy field data into measurable program impact. Comfortable moving between research and production contexts, he combines rigorous mathematical training (BS in Mathematics, 3.82) with hands-on experimentation in large models and dataset engineering. Notably, his career arc reflects a recurring theme of turning policy-scale problems into actionable data science research rather than only product-driven engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, 3.82, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, 3.82 at The College of William and MaryMaster of Science - MS, Media Arts and Sciences, Master of Science - MS, Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWestfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
stata10
controlled10
ado10
r-package8
sql-query7
scheme7
ports7
activerecord6
nginx6
rollback6
database6
bing6
sql6
sed6
docker6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wwbrannon/bing-tile-hive
Jun 2018 - Jun 2019
Bing tile support for Hive
Contributions:1 release, 64 commits, 25 pushes in 11 months
binghivetile
wwbrannon/wwbrannon.github.io
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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