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New York, New York, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Contribute to the advancement and proposal of research projects using computational approaches such as parallel computing and geospatial analysis for collecting data about Major Depressive Disorder through social media
• Develop data processing script for database on remote computing cluster using PostgreSQL and Python; Collect, analyze, and process 1000’s of tweets using Twitter API
• Conduct sentiment analysis on tweets to determine density levels of depression on a neighborhood scale
• Received acknowledgement for debugging code issues contributing to analysis of major depressive disorder through social media and location in a published academic manuscript

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Designed and managed independent research project mapping mobility and depression within neighborhoods; Utilized Python, R, and GeoDa to collect and analyze geospatial data as it correlates to sociodemographic factors.
• Used Twitter API, web scrapping tools, and data modeling within Python in order to determine correlations between mask compliance sentiments on social media and COVID-19 cases in a given US county
• Used Python to collect and scrape 1000’s of restaurant menus for a study analyzing the implications of the number of plant-based options within different cultural cuisines
• Collaborated on term project to prototype and develop an application providing legal services anonymously to underserved populations through focus group and usability sessions with relevant populations
• Applied large scale computing techniques on AWS Cloud to build database and identify natural language trends and general attitudes towards women from +500,000 social media posts on Reddit.com

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Provided individual accommodations for student testing environments according to required guidelines and supervised during student testing

Miami, Florida, United States

• Tutored high school and college-aged students in Statistics, Psychology, and Standardized Test Preparation through individual tutoring sessions
• Developed action plans helping students meet individual goals throughout the semester; Revised plans as needs arise

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Evaluated surveys for social psychology and business-related research with the goal of understanding leader dynamics and power balance in the workplace
• Collaborated with graduate researchers to build cohesive and user-friendly surveys for future research

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Represented the lab and its research in social, personality, and health psychology by analyzing data, designing, and presenting a poster on a lab related research topic (Health Psychology)
• Facilitated student discussion about Social Psychology articles to demonstrate novel research concepts
• Collected, recorded, and interpreted data from participants for several graduate students on research projects

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Interpreted manuscript patient history into centralized internal database streamlining patient evaluation
• Authored research articles about relevant psychology topics; Provided content for office’s public website
• Observed evaluations conducted by lab technicians and the resident neuropsychologist to gain knowledge about communicating and working with vulnerable populations

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Accommodated 100+ customers per shift, fulfilling custom and store-curated orders and providing excellent customer service
• Supervised other staff members in order to ensure cleanliness of food preparation area, the lobby, and back of the shop, in addition to completion of daily tasks
• Collected payment for services/ice cream by use of the cash register and counted register at the end of the night

Master'S Degree, Computational Social Science

Psychology, Behavioral And Cognitive Neuroscience