Brian Connolly

Brian Connolly has a diverse work experience, starting in 2002 as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. There, they were a member of two international teams and developed sophisticated statistical techniques for data analysis, leading to multiple publications. Brian also played a key role in the construction and maintenance of Light Detecting and Ranging (LIDAR) systems.

In 2007, Brian joined the University of Pennsylvania as a Postdoctoral Fellow, where they developed innovative statistical algorithms to analyze astrophysical data and published high-profile research papers. Brian focused on Bayesian-based approaches and created techniques for classification, information extraction from incomplete data, and efficient triggering on potential astrophysical objects.

From 2013 to 2017, Brian worked as a Research Associate at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, where they made significant contributions to pediatric neuropsychiatric clinical care and research. Brian introduced modern natural language processing and artificial intelligence techniques to develop automatic clinical decision support tools for suicide prevention research. Brian managed clinical studies, developed multimodal machine learning approaches for analyzing clinical data, and contributed to suicide risk identification.

In 2017, Brian transitioned to Kroger, where they held the position of Data Scientist and Software Architect 4. Brian utilized novel natural language processing techniques to re-engineer the company's search engine and developed various AI-based solutions for text analytics. Brian also led A/B testing teams in benchmarking and improving the performance of machine learning models deployed in production.

In 2021, Brian became the Director of Data Integration at 80 Acres Farms, where they were responsible for overseeing data integration strategies and operations.

Currently, Brian works as a Senior Consultant in Data Science at Illumination Works, starting in 2023. Further details about their responsibilities and achievements in this role are not provided.

Brian Connolly earned their Bachelor's Degree in Physics from Purdue University, where they attended from 1992 to 1996. Following this, they pursued further education at Florida State University, where they obtained their Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in High Energy Physics. Brian studied at Florida State University from 1996 to 2002.