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California, United States

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Hired and ramped to a team of 12 data scientists working with product and engineering stakeholders to define operational metrics and foster a hypothesis-driven culture. Revamped internal understanding of how customer behaviors drive operational costs; partnered with sales and engineering teams to install and uphold guardrails, and protect our operating marginsFormalized tools for in-product experimentation, and architected a data collection strategy to enable deep understanding of our customer behaviors.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Revamped tracking and attribution for all top-of-funnel GTM teams. Federated my team’s source of truth data to Salesforce and other end-user tools, driving alignment between marketing, sales, and finance. During my tenure, implementation of data-driven approaches led to a doubling of Segment’s inbound sales efficiency (rate from from inbound lead to closed-won business).

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Created “Routed”, an app that optimizes a route between suitable nearby shops, given a user-provided starting location and shopping list of goods and services. Predicted store assortment using natural language processing of Yelp reviews.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Worked to understand the mechanisms that drive the development of fat cells in dynamic environments. I designed and built a fluidic platform that enables independently-programmed exchange of signaling hormones, for each of several different populations of developing adipocytes, while simultaneously monitoring these cells using fluorescent microscopy. I used my single-cell imaging analysis tools to measure how synergistic and dynamically-changing hormones work to inhibit or encourage differentiation. I have also established and validated a CRISPR-tagged mouse line that enables single-cell study of adipocyte development in single primary (or potentially in vivo) cells.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Used macrophages derived from a reporter mouse line I designed to measure and understand stimulus-specific NF-κB dynamics in primary bone-marrow macrophages. This work demonstrated that immune cells are capable of reliably encoding different types environmental information (here, the bacterial, viral, or endogenous origin of a molecule) in the oscillations or sustained activity of this transcription factor.

La Jolla, Ca, Us

I developed an automated live mammalian cell-tracking system for live-cell microscopy, and applied it to measure variable dynamics of an important immune transcription factor, NF-κB, in single macrophages. I applied information-theoretical approaches to demonstrate that these activation dynamics encode non-redundant information about a cell's external conditions. Finally, I coupled these single-cell dynamic studies with traditional knockout studies and computational modeling to understand network mechanisms that shape Toll-like receptor signaling in innate immunity.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering