George H. Collier Ph.D. is a Senior Data Scientist for Shepherd Center, a leading Rehabilitation Hospital. His passion is to improve patient care through applying cutting-edge advances in big data and data science.

Dr. Collier received his Ph.D. in cognitive science from Princeton and started working as a Research Scientist at Telcordia, a spin-out from Bell Labs. At Telcordia, he worked in both research and as a technical lead of multiple commercial products. Subsequently, as Principal Data Scientist at Ericsson, Dr. Collier led teams that delivered groundbreaking enterprise big data projects. Separately he developed new rehabilitation applications used in multiple research projects. At Shepherd he is laying the groundwork of a cloud-based big data system to support predictive analytics.

In his spare time, Dr. Collier likes to cook, spend time with his family and ride bicycles in the mountains and wild and beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina.