Emma Thomas, Phd Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

• Plan and execute quantitative analyses on 6 projects to answer impactful policy questions• Program modern statistical and machine learning methods in R and Stata to fit datasets with millions of records, including social media data and data from a language learning app• Lead study design and statistical analysis plans for 8 research proposals, including design of a randomized experiment• Execute complex Bayesian analyses using Markov Chain Monte Carlo via Stan and create interactive visualizations to communicate results to collaborators using RShiny• Co-author 2 reports and 5 journal manuscripts under preparation (2 submitted) to communicate results of quantitative analyses to key stakeholders• Successfully navigate internal labor market to establish collaborations and engage in research opportunities as part of first cohort to enter organization in a fully-remote environment

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Created innovative Bayesian statistical methodology to analyze the impact of air pollution on millions of hospitalizations for hundreds of distinct diseases• Built a publicly-available R package implementing a bespoke Bayesian algorithm to allow users to fit the above model to new datasets• Designed and executed an analysis of ~70,000 authors of medical publications in more than 2000 journals to assess gender disparities in authorship• Led graduate-level classes on topics including statistical inference, network analysis in Python, and applied regression in R and Stata

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

• Analyzed biomedical datasets using statistical methods including random forests and logistic regression in collaboration with medical researchers as part of a biostatistical consultancy unit

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

• Led 4 research projects resulting in first authorship of 4 peer-reviewed publications• Developed predictive models of criminal recidivism; analyzed patterns of health outcomes among ex-prisoners; designed and implemented 2 stochastic models of influenza spread• Synthesized 7 databases of electronic health and criminal records linked to extensive survey data; jointly interrogated 3 influenza surveillance databases using bespoke regression methods

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Au

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Biostatistics

Master Of Science (Mathematics & Statistics), Statistics & Stochastic Processes

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mathematics