Justin Jacobs

Justin Wayne Jacobs is an American statistician, currently serving as the Spatial Statistics Group Lead at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Jacobs is a former applied research mathematician at the National Security Agency, a Senior Basketball Researcher with the Orlando Magic, a Spatiotemporal Analytics Researcher with the Houston Rockets, and an independent sports analytics researcher. Noted for his research into geolocation, geospatial statistics and spatio-temporal statistics, Jacobs was awarded a National Intelligence Medallion from the ODNI in January 2014 by the Director of National Intelligence as well as the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE) in April 2014 by President Barack Obama.