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Venmo Consumer Team

San Francisco, California, United States

• Science lead for pricing diagnostics
• Built & productionized optimization model for sampling external data. Improved accuracy of data by 40% and unlocked flexible data sampling, supporting monthly operational pricing campaigns at 20% reduced cost.
• Developed rider pricing frameworks & business recommendations using product analytics & deep dives.
• Ideated, built, and maintained business-critical dashboards & metrics, enabling data-driven pricing decisions.
• Built team roadmap by identifying gaps in decision systems, impact sizing, collaborating cross-functionally with 6 teams, and reprioritizing initiatives as needed to align with evolving company needs.
• Managed relationships with 2 third-party vendors to reduce vendor errors by 50%, improve accuracy of metrics by 13% & increase data coverage. Cleaned & analyzed external data to support rideshare models.Stepped up as.

San Francisco, CA

• PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Li Gan. Investigated the role of microglia in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis through the use of behavioral, cellular, and molecular techniques.
• Collected, analyzed, and interpreted raw biological data using parametric and non-parametric statistical methods (i.e. t-tests, one-way and two-way ANOVAs, linear regressions, correlations, multivariate analysis).
• Simplified data analysis by 25% by using correlations to identify pertinent ways to segment data.
• Increased efficiency of data collection pipeline by 30% through standardization and identification of key metrics.
• Spearheaded an interdisciplinary research program from inception to completion across 8 labs and 20 contributors, resulting in a multi-year grant from the National Institute of Health and two first-author publications.
• Trained 8 new scientists in experimental design, data analysis, and presentation skills.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Sole instructor for a semester-long graduate course on Biological Psychology taught to first year Clinical Psychology Psy.D. students at USF.
• Taught a 12-week graduate-level course on Biological Psychology to 11 students.
• Constructed an entirely new syllabus, combining material from multiple sources and disciplines.
• Achieved 6/6 median score on all student feedback criteria, exceeding department averages in all 4 categories.

New Haven, Connecticut

Helped Yale students sharpen their writing skills through one-on-one mentoring. I worked with both native and non-native English speakers on written pieces from a broad range of disciplines.

New Haven, Connecticut

I studied the role of a tyrosine phosphatase, STEP, in Fragile X Syndrome by using genetic and pharmacological manipulations and quantifying outcomes through the use of western blotting and immunoprecipitation. My work in Dr. Lombroso's lab culminated in a two-part senior thesis on the effects of STEP on behavioral and biochemical aspects of Fragile X.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: Neuroscience Curriculum Committee Student Member (2014-2017), Neuroscience Bootcamp Committee Member.

B.S., Psychology

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Chi, Yale Writing Center Peer Tutor, MATHCOUNTS Tutor, Tutoring in Elementary School.

High School

Activities and Societies: Valedictorian, AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Commended Scholar