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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Contributed to the development of 19 deployed machine learning models to automate prior authorization request approval, resulting in thousands of dollars in savings per day.
• Planned and built monitoring tools to track the predictive performance, data health, and business impact of deployed machine learning models including daily Slack alerts with Airflow and Spark as well as Tableau.
• Extended existing models by developing new features to improve performance as well as ensuringconsistent performance when on-boarding new clients.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• PhD in Integrative Neuroscience | Psychology
• Lead teams of researchers in projects resulting in publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals
• Developed an open-source machine learning library for neural data analysis with Python, Scikit-Learn,and Matplotlib, which is now used by more than 5 researchers
• Collected and curated multi-modal datasets composed of neural, eye-tracking, and behavioral data
• Created an open-source data processing pipeline in MATLAB that synchronizes and cleans neural,eye-tracking, and behavioral data which is now used by 2 research labs

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Researched real-time feedback systems for surgeons during robotic surgeries, leading to improvedunderstanding of potential future applications
• Trained machine learning models on multivariate time series data with Scikit-Learn and TSFresh
• Applied unsupervised clustering methods to improve model interpretability, providing insights into modelperformance and improving feedback systems

Remote

• Trained XGBoost models on biomedical data for the diagnosis of neurological disorders, improvingaccuracy and specificity of the diagnosis processes
• Created 3D interactive visualizations of neural data which increased interpretability of medical reports
• Utilized AWS cloud services and parallel processing techniques to efficiently process large datasets,reducing computation time and improving data analysis efficiency

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Integrative Neuroscience | Psychology

Master Of Arts - Ma, Integrative Neuroscience | Psychology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology | Statistics