Zachary Blanks
Program Manager at United States Air Force
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Blanks is an operations research–trained program manager and data scientist with eight years of experience applying machine learning to high-stakes problems in defense and public policy. He combines PhD-level study in Data Science at the University of Virginia with prior MIT research on large-scale ML and novel classifiers for satellite imagery and skin-cancer detection, bringing both academic rigor and operational impact. In the U.S. Air Force he has moved from branch-level decision analytics leadership to program management, translating complex probabilistic models into actionable decisions under uncertainty. He is passionate about using data science to inform public policy and has a track record of bridging research, engineering, and mission requirements in constrained, real-world environments. An often-overlooked strength is his background in applied operations research from the Air Force Academy through graduate study, which gives him a practical edge in designing deployable analytic solutions.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Operations Research, Master of Science - MS, Operations Research at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Operations Research, Bachelor of Science - BS, Operations Research at United States Air Force AcademyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Data Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Data Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (9)
trainings7
echo6
optimization4
science4
python4
parallel3
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
data-science3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zblanks/label_reduction
May 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:67 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
zblanks/water_pumps
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 5 branches in 29 days
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