Jim Pivarski

Jim Pivarski is a data scientist/engineer who has worked in and out of academia. He was trained as a particle physicist with a Ph.D. from Cornell and helped to commission and analyze first data from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. He then worked as a data science consultant at Open Data Group, analyzing data from commercial clients, and then at Princeton, developing analysis software for physicists and promoting better integration with the world beyond academia. Jim is the original author of Awkward Array, a NumFOCUS affiliated project with thousands of users. Now he is analyzing data at U. Chicago’s Data Science Institute for the 11th Hour Project and its philanthropic goals.