Bandon Decker, Phd Email & Phone Number

I am a data scientist and former astronomer ('ex-tronomer') with a PhD in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Missouri---Kansas City. I'm working in the actuary and advanced analytics group at LGA and I've previously worked in the geospatial industry. I'm an expert in image calibration and analysis, particularly infrared images, as well as data modelling and analysis. My first work was on a project using drone-based infrared imagery to detect concrete delamination in highway bridges and my dissertation work also heavily involved image data---as part of the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS) I used existing images and new images I collected to analyse the properties of distant galaxy clusters. Essentially my last ten years of work has mostly been either looking at images of the ground taken from the sky, or images of the sky taken from the ground!Between my academic and industry backgrounds I have over a decade of experience doing scientific analysis in python and nearly a decade of experience working directly with image data. I also have several years of experience analysing and modelling large data sets---including machine learning analyses---and visualising and presenting these analyses to varied audiences. More recently I have worked increasingly in AWS environments and am familiar with git, git flow, and GitHub.

Listed skills include Data Analysis, Mathematics, Mathematica, Mathematical Physics, and 6 others.