Curriculum Vitae

Full Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Experience

Senior Strategist, Trust and Safety, Google.

• Statistical analysis of ad network traffic signals to determine fraud and appropriate actions.
• Developed and deployed statistical models for fraud estimation, risk modeling, and actioning rules.
• Development of statistical models for annotator agreement and item prediction.
• Applied Bayesian and frequentist modeling using Python and R (TensorFlow Probability, Stan, rstanarm).

Postdoctoral Fellow, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

• Implementation and interpretation of advanced statistical analyses of clinical data.
• Analyzed experimental data, demographics, and responses for clinical and control populations.
• Preparation of interim and annual data summaries, progress, and status reports for funding agencies and other researchers.
• Collaboration with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in investigations of linguistic perception.

Consulting team member, Penn Biotech Group, University of Pennsylvania.

• Primary and secondary market research on market size and potential beneficiaries for new product.
• Demographic analysis of under- and unexplored potential users of new product.
• Statistical modeling of underlying market structure for new product.
• Conducted in-person interviews with leading medical professionals.
• Data-driven determination of pricing strategies for a market entry model.

Cognitive neuroscience researcher, University of Maryland, College Park.

• Creation, design, implementation of human perception experiments.
• Use of advanced statistical, machine learning, and signal processing techniques to analyze human behavioral and perceptual responses.
• Several invited talks and conference presentations for scientific audiences.
• Published several peer-reviewed manuscripts in leading journals.

Education

University of Maryland, College Park. Ph.D., Biology.

Advisor: David Poeppel.
Title: MEG, Psychophysical and Computational Studies of Loudness, Timbre and Audiovisual Integration (PDF).

Rutgers University, B.A. Biology. Minor: Mathematics.