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Ryan McClarren has been active in technical fields for as long as he can remember.  He is presently Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.  He is also  involved with Buzzer Intelligence, a startup driven to improve the event going experience. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, as well as the Chief Science officer for Farsite.

In his academic research, he has published over 45 articles in refereed journals plus many presentations at national and international conferences.  For Google’s take on his research, see their citations page. At this writing they list an h-index of 20 and1229 citations.  Ryan’s research has been published in engineering, physics, mathematics, and statistics journals. His particular areas of interest are particle transport (neutrons, x-rays, and friends), uncertainty quantification, and high energy density physics.

His data science work for Farsite spanned the industries of retail, gaming, healthcare, and private equity. In 2013 he was the lead scientist on a campaign to forecast the Academy Awards. Ryan correctly picked 5 out of 6 categories including the upset of Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained. This work was covered in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, NPR, USA Today, and The Guardian. 

This only begins to scratch the surface of what it means to be a quantitatively savvy person in the ever increasing data dense world we live in. Beyond that world, Ryan relishes his time with his wife and four children in their home in South Bend and wherever else life takes them.