Andrea Davis Email & Phone Number

Cupertino, California, United States

Menlo Park, CA

- Design user surveys paired with on platform experiments to measure the effects of products changes- Analyze survey responses and log data using statistical and unsupervised machine learning techniques (in R and SQL)- Text mining and analysis of open ended survey responses- Present results to stakeholders to drive product changes that will improve user's.

I consult on the grant-funded project "Improving the efficiency of creating image descriptions for students with print disabilities". The goal of this project is to create open source tools that can integrate with a variety of workflows in producing accessible educational materials (AEM), reducing the barriers in the educational life of students with print.

Madison, WI

Postdoctoral Trainee in Communication Sciences and DisordersI investigated: A) Perception and language development in children with autism B) Spoken category learning in adultsC) Reading fluency in bilingual childrenUsing web-based behavioral experiments (coded in jsPsych) and lab-based eyetracking experiments (coded in pygaze)

San Francisco Bay Area

I used:- data mining and data wrangling of logged usage data- learner and instructor behavioral analytics- survey data- learning studies with student participants - inferential statistical methods- machine learningto lead quantitative studies which inform the development, implementation, and sale of learning products.

Stanford, CA

I investigated: A) Text-to-speech vowel perceptabilityB) How memory of spoken words is affected by voice characteristicsUsing web-based and lab-based human behavioral experiments

Tucson, Arizona Area

- Investigated the relationship between human perception, category learning, and language learning- Designed, programmed, and ran behavioral experiments- Statistically analyzed and interpreted data

Tucson, AZ

- Collaborated with top scholars in linguistics- Annotated speech and manipulated speech tracks of Scots Gaelic speech using Praat- Statistically analyzed perceptual language data from an endangered language, Scots Gaelic- Presented results at the Celtic Congress in Maynooth, Ireland

San Francisco

- Text mining of multi-language data sources, with prioritization of endangered languages- Natural language processing techniques to clean and format language data sources

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Acoustical Society of America, Linguistics Society of AmericaExpertise in psycholinguistics, language.

Ms, Human Language Technology

Computational linguistics, statistical natural language processing

Ma, Linguistics

Ba, Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Vice President of Society for Linguistics Undergraduate Students Studied abroad in Lyon, France 2006-2007

Education record

- Studied at a French university, taking classes with French students - Lived with a French host family - Became fluent in French.