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Mclean, Virginia, United States

Mclean, Virginia, United States

• Researched labor and trade policies to inform data analyses on current and projected supply chain disruptions
• Built data pipelines in Python that utilize API calls to extract and analyze time-series data for 8 key US container ports
• Analyzed and visualized shipping routes using data management and visualization packages in R
• Conducted network analysis to understand the centrality and connectivity of US container ports
• Recommended aspects that drive port efficiency and output to government sponsors

• Built Python data pipelines that query, clean, and summarize data for modeling aimed at predicting household-level lead pipe contamination
• Constructed data products connecting data on community water systems with open-source social and economic data such as the American Community Survey and the Area Deprivation Index
• Conducted geospatial analyses and managed spatial data using spatial joins, spatial overlays, map visualizations, coordinate reprojections, and data management techniques using geopandas and other Python packages
• Explored applications of geospatial data science techniques including spatial Gini Index and spatial regression

Washington D.C.

• Analyzed and managed healthcare claims data to understand and predict Medicare provider spending habits
• Created and updated SAS programs designed to create monthly and semi-annual spending reports for over 1,700 participants enrolled in a bundled payment program
• Investigated approaches to update and refine current analytical and coding methodology based on client needs
• Created and refined statistical models used to predict provider spending
• Created technical specifications to communicate how analyses were implemented programmatically
• Reviewed and monitored changes in policy initiatives, and implemented those changes programmatically

Chapel Hill, NC

• Worked as a research assistant and data analyst in the Spatial Health Research Group
• Assisted with research investigating water, sanitation, and health practices in rural Bangladesh
• Created and updated R scripts for data management and analysis
• Created exploratory data reports in R containing data visualizations and summary tables that helped develop research goals
• Built and assessed logistic regression and other statistical models used to analyze study results
• Conducted literature reviews on water and sanitation practices that aided in creating academic papers for publication

Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN

• Utilized machine learning and text mining techniques to extract and analyze user data from Reddit to understand patterns in substance abuse and addiction
• Analyzed factors influencing users’ substance abuse using survival analyses and classification models
• Explored various natural language processing tools including word embeddings, clustering algorithms, topic modeling, document similarity/summarization, and sentiment analysis
• Examined applications of sequence modeling using conditional random fields and bidirectional LSTMs

Chapel Hill, NC

• Worked as an intern in the Biostatistics Core of UNC's Center for AIDS Research
• Employed the use of matching algorithms coded in R to assess differences in HIV viral load of study participants
• Constructed workflows to streamline data management and analysis using statistical packages in R
• Collaborated directly with Principal Investigators in developing analysis plans for HIV/AIDS research projects

Master'S Degree, Public Policy And Data Analytics

A highly selective program that integrates graduate coursework in public policy with robust coursework in data mining & machine learning.

Bachelor'S Degree, Statistics And Analytics

Minor in Music Buckley Public Service Scholar Graduated with distinction Activities: Musical Empowerment at UNC, Carolina Analytics and.

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