Jarrod Olson serves as Karna's Director of Health Analytics. In this role, he is responsible for strengthening Karna's analytics capabilities and executing the analytics strategy. He is an experienced project leader who has implemented and driven adoption of data science development operations. He is leading the integration of non-traditional analytics into Karna's solution offerings to help health organizations better organize and utilize the vast amounts of data now available to them.
He specializes in designing and implementing Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and analytics platforms to fit decision-making needs. He applies these capabilities to identify patterns in public and clinical health data (ML), establish automated decision tools that help organizations make data-driven decisions (AI), recognize emerging health challenges on social media, within health records, or other text-based data (NLP), and streamline and improve data analysis for scientists and other key stakeholders (analytics platforms).
Jarrod has more than 10 years of experience in policy and data science. Before joining Karna, he served as a Senior Software Engineer at Battelle, where he contributed to new capability development within discrete event simulation, NLP, and ML/AI offerings in health analytics.
In addition to technical contributions, he led a mixed data science and software engineering team and served in a business development capacity for the analytics systems he and his team developed. Before joining Battelle, Jarrod was a Research Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, for six years.
Publication highlights
- Vernon CR, Zuljevic N, Rice JS, Seiple TE, Kintner-Meyer MCW, Voisin N, Kraucunas IP, Chunlian J, Olson J, Schmidt L, Morris SL, Patel P. CERF – A Geospatial Model for Assessing Future Energy Production Technology Expansion Feasibility. Journal of Open Research Software. 2018, 6(3).
- Olson J and Stone D. Suspense Optimal College Football Playoffs. Journal of Sports Economics 2014. 15(5): 519-540.
- Lesperance AM, Olson J, Stein S, Clark R, Kelly H, Sheline J, Tietje G, Williamson M, and Woodcock J. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice and Science. September 2011, 9(3): 280-287.
- Olson J, Chen PHA, White M, Brennan N, and Gong N. (2019). State Drug Policy Effectiveness: Comparative Policy Analysis of Drug Overdose Mortality. arXiv:1909.01936.