Patricia Higgins Email & Phone Number

Charlottesville, VA, US

I am a freelance data scientist. In recent years, my main clients have been tech transfer departments at Virginia universities. While the main goal of my work is to help identify marketable research, one of my key tools is data. For example, analysis of grant awards and publications to identify who is working on something new, using patent analysis tools.

Fairfax, Virginia, US

My role is to bridge the gap between the research on campus and industry, particularly Virginia Industry. George Mason University has an amazing collection of innovations ranging from basic research (pursuit of knowledge) to business ready (applied research). The work is varied but here are a few: 1) aircraft safety (from securing the ADS-B protocol to.

Harrisonburg, VA, US

I advise and assist faculty in transitioning their research into the marketplace either through product development, open source distribution, and/or patents. I help to connect faculty to businesses in Virginia that may be interested in their product or may want to incorporate their work into the companies product.

I am engaged in cutting edge work focused on developing models that incorporate human behaviors with traditional models of systems (agent based models, discrete event models, system dynamics models, social network analysis, general computational models, and complex data visualization.) The models I work on at Deloitte include resource allocation for.

Harrisonburg, VA, US

The focus of my research at JMU was on Infrastructure Failures and Terrorism. The models I developed include System Dynamics where a medical center needed to plan for a flu pandemic, Social Network Analysis of the House Armed Services Committee, Data Modeling in terrorism, Agent Based Modeling and an interesting adventure using i2's Analyst Notebook to.

The product set was focus on developing a router for use in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. It was highly innovative technology. I began as the Project Manager with responsibility for a variety of schedules, budgets, personell and products; however, I also took on responsibility as the Quality Assurance Manager and a variety of marketing.

Insured that all hardware was prepared for the Y2K rollover.

IBM set the tone for how I work and what I expect from others in the work place. I started as a programmer but quickly moved into various project management roles.

Certificate, Computational Social Science

Grad Cert, Computation Social Science

Masters Of Science, Integrated Science And Technology (Systems Dynamics And Predictive Modeling)

Master Of Science, Integrated Science And Technology

B.A., Mathematics