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Geoffrey Fairchild, Ph.D.

Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

I am a computer scientist focused on using modern data science techniques to solve real-world activity-based intelligence problems. My toolbox includes various techniques for heterogeneous data fusion, large-scale parallel data processing, machine learning, geospatial and spatiotemporal modeling and analysis, statistical modeling, natural language processing, optimization, and agent-based modeling. Some key application areas I have worked on include: 1) disease modeling, surveillance, and forecasting, 2) political instability modeling, and 3) patterns-of-life analysis and anomaly detection.

Group Leader
2023-Present · Los Alamos National Laboratory
Science Advisor
2020-2024 · United States Strategic Command
Scientist
2015-2023 · Los Alamos National Laboratory
Graduate Research Assistant
2012-2015 · Los Alamos National Laboratory
Research Assistant
2009-2014 · University of Iowa
Teaching Assistant
2008 · University of Iowa
Associate Software Engineer
2006-2008 · 21st Century Technologies

Ph.D., Computer Science
2014 · University of Iowa
Thesis: Improving disease surveillance: sentinel surveillance network design and novel uses of Wikipedia
M.S., Computer Science
2011 · University of Iowa
B.S., Computer Science
2008 · University of Texas at Austin
B.S., Mathematics
2008 · University of Texas at Austin

pyHarmonySearch
pyHarmonySearch is a pure Python implementation of the harmony search global optimization algorithm.
pyxDamerauLevenshtein
pyxDamerauLevenshtein implements the Damerau-Levenshtein (DL) edit distance algorithm for Python in Cython for high performance.
yelpapi
yelpapi is a pure Python implementation of the Yelp Fusion API (aka Yelp v3 API).
eclipse-hasher
eclipse-hasher is an Eclipse plugin for computing the cryptographic hash of selected files. Development stopped in 2013.
NextHub
NextHub is a powerful and extensible file-sharing server written in C# that implements the ADC protocol. It runs under any platform supporting the .NET 2.0 framework. Development stopped in 2008.

  • football
  • rugby
  • powerlifting
  • photography
  • Brazilian jiu-jitsu (blue belt)
  • snowboarding
  • skiing
  • hiking/backpacking
  • scuba diving
  • motorcycling
  • chess
  • computer games
  • ultimate Frisbee