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Dr. Neal A. Doran

Geoscientist & Scientific Data Engineer

I build deployed AI/ML systems and production-ready data pipelines optimized for massive scientific and biodiversity databases. Backed by a PhD in geological sciences (micropaleontology) and two decades of hands-on domain experience with deep-time geological, paleontological, and spatial data, I bridge the gap between highly complex natural-science datasets and robust computational engineering.

Core Deployed Systems

  • Global Geology PostGIS Analysis — A PostgreSQL/PostGIS spatial database integrating USGS World Geology and State Geologic Map Compilation datasets (148.3M km² of mapped geology), using spatial SQL to compute continental-scale geologic surface analysis. 👉 View Project

  • Spatial Biodiversity Gap Audit Platform — An automated extract, transform, load (ETL) pipeline and live analytical dashboard cross-auditing global IUCN Red List conservation data against a 26-million-record GBIF occurrence dataset using Python and SQLite. 👉 Launch Deployed App

  • Semantic Socratic Tutor — A retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system grounded in a specialized historical and philosophical scientific corpus. Built with Python, utilizing all-MiniLM-L6-v2 sentence-transformer embeddings, NumPy cosine-similarity retrieval, and an integrated Anthropic Claude API pipeline. 👉 Launch Deployed App

Technical Stack & Capabilities

  • Languages & Databases: Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, SQLite
  • Geospatial Engineering: Spatial SQL, PostGIS, GeoPandas, spatial indexing, equal-area projection, continental-scale spatial queries
  • Data Engineering: High-throughput ETL pipelines, database normalization, structural data migration, large-scale dataset ingestion
  • AI/ML & Natural Language Processing: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector embeddings, semantic search, LLM API integration (Anthropic Claude)
  • Deployment & UI: Streamlit, Streamlit Cloud, interactive dashboard architecture

Professor of Biology, Bryan College · PhD Geoscientist building the tools that turn complex scientific data into rigorous, queryable systems.

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  1. global-geology-postgis global-geology-postgis Public

    PostGIS analysis of global land surface exposure by geologic period

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  2. biodiversity-gap-audit biodiversity-gap-audit Public

    Large-scale ETL pipeline and Streamlit dashboard auditing 26M GBIF occurrence records against IUCN Red List criteria (Python, SQLite).

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  3. socratic-tutor socratic-tutor Public

    Deployed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system using sentence-transformer embeddings, NumPy cosine-similarity search, and Anthropic Claude API.

    Python

  4. nealdoran nealdoran Public

  5. nealdoran.github.io nealdoran.github.io Public

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