Phil Killewald
Lead Data Scientist
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Killewald is a Lead Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying computational physics, simulation, and data-driven methods to aerospace and defense problems. He progressed from Ph.D. research analyzing LHC detector data and building real-time C++ hardware interfaces to leading development of large-scale radar and geolocation simulation libraries at Lincoln Laboratory, and now drives analytic products and teams at Mathematica. Phil blends deep domain expertise in physics and high-performance C++ with practical data science leadership, regularly translating complex modeling results into actionable briefings for stakeholders. Based in Greater Boston, he’s comfortable bridging research-grade simulation and production analytics—an engineer who moves from low-level hardware and performance analysis up to product-facing, decision-ready insights.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at The Ohio State University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (56)
zip-archive9
mixed-models9
julia9
rational-numbers9
science8
statistical-models8
machine-learning8
programming-language8
openvpn7
openconnect7
statistics7
hpc7
tor7
health7
pyenv6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
reallyasi9/pickem4me
Oct 2017 - Mar 2023
Pick my B1G Pick 'em picks for me
Contributions:11 PRs, 46 pushes, 17 branches in 5 years 5 months
pickspickpick-em
reallyasi9/cardware-generator
Dec 2019 - Dec 2024
Simple word list generator in the spirit of DiceWare, but for playing cards.
Contributions:10 PRs, 21 pushes, 14 branches in 5 years
spiritword-listplaying-cardslist-generatordnd-tools
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