Nicholas Larsen
Ph.D. Statistics | Data Scientist | Online Controlled Experiments | DoD Consulting | LLMOps | GenAI Development
- Role
- Data Scientist, Senior Advisor at General Dynamics Information Technology
- Location
- Reston, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nicholas Larsen
Results-oriented PhD data scientist with proven track record in leveraging theory and AI…
Experience
Data Scientist, Senior Advisor
General Dynamics Information Technology
Mar 2024 — Present · VA, US
Continued support of the Dagger contract- End-to-end deployment of an LLM-driven semantic search engine using Elasticsearch for >15M documents, accelerating intelligence analysis workflows- Developing a generative AI-based conversational agent for using natural language to interact with data holdings in Elasticsearch, via queries and aggregations- Designed and maintained 5+ batch analytic pipelines for handling millions of daily records; applied quantile-based anomaly detection & LLM-based classifiers for insider threat analysis- Managed Linux admin tasks and deployed self-hosted LLM inference (up to 132B parameters) in a high-security, air-gapped environment.
Education
North Carolina State University
Master of Science - MS
2018 — 2021
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelor of Science - BS
2014 — 2018
North Carolina State University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
2018 — 2023
Middlebury Language Schools
Level 2.5
2018 — 2018
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