Leah Flake Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Data Scientist supporting Refugee, Asylum and International Operations at USCIS under the Innovation and Design for Enhanced Adjudication (IDEA) Division. Served as Acting Branch Chief of the Applied Technology and Operations Management (ATOM) branch.

RSG applies state-of-the-art modeling and analytics to inform planning and strategy, helping organizations make critical decisions with confidence.Responsibilities:• Develop data processing pipeline for travel survey products using continuous integration & enterprise pipelining tools• Evaluate trade-offs and applications of diverse data sources (including large passively-collected location data) for transportation planning and modeling• Find and report insights from data to inform front- and back-end development & transportation data collection improvements for RSG's smartphone app• Write a lot of reproducible code to wrangle, query, summarize, and visualize complex relational data; and write a little bit of code to develop algorithms and/or models

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

College Park

Graduate Assistant for the Digital Cultures and Creativity and Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students Honors Programs• Designed and led workshops related to computer programming, physical computing,digital performance• Planned recruitment and orientation events for prospective students• Designed introductory courses in Digital Cultures and Creativity as part of a team• Led course discussion sections and advised first- and second-year students• Developed syllabi and other curriculum materials for a new living-learning program

Washington Dc

Intern at the Science, Space, and Technology Committee• Researched legislation and policies to assist committee staff• Compiled documents to prepare committee staff for hearings• Briefed staff members with information from Senate and House hearings

• Worked with NASA and Smith College on design/research project on urban forest models• Compared practices and methods of two different urban forest models• Performed Monte-Carlo based uncertainty analysis on UFORE (urban forestmodeling tool)• Designed a modeling component to quantify nitrogen storage in soil and trees

Us And Japan

• Organized, planned, and directed a month-long academic conference in the U.S. between Japanese and American students• Managed conference budget for meals, lodging, events, and transportation• Coordinated nation-wide recruitment of university students in the U.S.• Led a group of American and Japanese students in a roundtable on environmental sustainability in industrially developing nations

Middletown, Nj

• Researched internet-based methods for domestic and international calling• Compiled report based on research findings and presented to executive members ofcompany

London, United Kingdom

Intern for European Office of Aerospace Research and Development• Organized documents pertaining to U.S. research grants in Europe• Submitted and processed financial documents to fund research grants

Northampton, Ma

Smith College Arts and Technology Program• Documented arts and technology resources for faculty and student reference• Designed and built workshop setup for arts and technology students

Master Of Engineering And Public Policy, Transportation Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Engineering

Activities and Societies: House Presidents AssociationMajor in Engineering Sciences, Minor in East Asian Languages and Literature.