Kory D. Johnson

Statistical Consultant

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Curriculum Vitae

Background

During my academic career I have transitioned between multiple institutions, taught and developed a wide variety of courses at the bachelor and master's level, as well as conducted research in disparate fields. This has culminated in a diverse skill set that has been tuned to rigorously analyze new problems and improve upon state-of-the-art methods in multiple domains. I have spent many years surrounded by statistical problems in business, economics, and epidemiology, and I have both used and taught a diverse array of tools to solve them. This includes classical, nonparametric, and Bayesian statistics as well as optimization, machine learning, and neural networks. R is my primary programming language, and I use Python for my work on neural networks. I enjoy the translation of problems in an application area to concrete statistical tasks and am always eager to explore new methods and applications. This translation is what separates the naive application of statistical and machine learning techniques from the insights that they are able to generate.

My research covers two broad domains: data-focused statistical analysis in epidemiology and fairness-aware data mining, and methodology within transparent machine learning. In all of these fields, I have written internationally recognized publications as well as publicly available R packages which are available on github. Doing so required identifying where value could be added, then developing both the theoretical and computational tools to provide it.

For publications, teaching, software, and associated links, see my CV (above).

Education

PhD Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2016.

MA Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2016.

BS Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.

BA with distinction in Economics and Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.

Personal

My non-academic hobbies are rock climbing, splitboarding, and mountaineering. For highlights from some trips, click here.