Rick Grannis
Chief Scientist / Chief Technical Officer at Grannis-Vu ConsultingData AnalysisComputational Social ScienceMathematical Behavioral Science
- Role
- Chief Science Officer at Grannis-Vu Consulting
- Location
- Irvine, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rick Grannis
Ever since I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, I wanted to be Hari Seldon, doing psychohistory. I thought I would do this as an academic, so I became an Ivy League professor, but I didn’t want to just do theory. I wanted to solve real problems for real people. So, I became a freelance problem solver taking consulting jobs on the side. When I developed my first real world social science tool that not only worked but that made a real-world difference, I knew I had found my calling. I began taking more and more consulting jobs until one day I realized that my supplemental work had become my primary work and, voila, Grannis-Vu Consulting was born.Much of social science appears subjective but I know there is real, objective, hard truth … and I mean to discover it. My strength is being able to quickly find mathematical and computational solutions to otherwise intractable, and often previously unquantified, social problems. Through innovative data acquisition strategies and by adapting analytic techniques from a wide array of fields, I help clients understand the current social world, where it is going, and how they can change that future.My customers have real needs and serve real purposes. They protect others, enable others, and enhance their lives, whether military, law enforcement, academic, or humanitarian, and I work with them to help them create a better world.This may seem like magic but it’s not. I do this by integrating the best of scientific expertise with the most cutting-edge technologies in existence to find powerful synergistic connections. I’m continually learning new approaches from social scientists, physicists, historians, ecologists, economists, molecular biologists, mathematicians, and many others. To this I add my insight and creativity molded by decades of experience.
Experience
Chief Science Officer
Jan 2013 — Present · Irvine, CA, US
Education
UC Irvine
Master's degree, Social Network Analysis
UC Irvine
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematical Behavioral Sciences
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