Geoffrey Fairchild

Geoffrey Fairchild, Ph.D.

Los Alamos, NM

About Me

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.

Experience

Group Leader

2023–Present · Los Alamos National Laboratory

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

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

2008–2014 · University of Iowa

Thesis: Improving disease surveillance: sentinel surveillance network design and novel uses of Wikipedia

M.S. in Computer Science

2008–2011 · University of Iowa

B.S. in Computer Science

2003–2008 · University of Texas at Austin

B.S. in Mathematics

2003–2008 · University of Texas at Austin

Projects

eclipse-hasher

eclipse-hasher is an Eclipse plugin for computing the cryptographic hash of selected files.

pyHarmonySearch

pyHarmonySearch is a pure Python implementation of the harmony search global optimization algorithm.

pyxDamerauLevenshtein

pyxDamerauLevenshtein implements the Damerau-Levenshtein 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).

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.

Hobbies

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