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Work Experience
Stripe
Data Science Manager Mar 2021 – present
- Defined experimentation strategy across Stripe’s user-facing surfaces
- Led team to deploy ML based optimization on Stripe’s user-facing dashboard, increasing click through rates by 20%
- Grew team from one to four data scientists/analysts working across core surfaces Stripe users engage with (Dashboard, Docs, and API)
Data Scientist Apr 2019 – Mar 2021
- Ran joint data science / user experience research group on state of Stripe merchants
- Built data tables and observability metrics to track account onboarding compliance
Classy
Senior Data Scientist Apr 2018 – Apr 2019
- Led data science work on the The State of Modern Philanthropy 2019
- Oversaw building of lead scoring model of potential clients
Data Scientist May 2017 – Apr 2018
- Analyzed experimental results on nonprofit donation optimization
- Built Product KPI dashboard
Département d’Etudes Cognitives (DEC), Ecole Normale Supérieure
Post Doctoral Researcher Jan 2016 – Mar 2017
- Analyzed speech of Huntington’s Disease patients with signal processing algorithms
- Designed experiments to test language and social cognition skills
Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
Graduate Student Sep 2010 – Jan 2016
- Designed experiments to test early Spanish-English bilinguals’ language systems
- Conducted statistical analyses with hierarchical models
Community Engagement
Course Creator 2016 – present
R for Publication
Directory Co-maintainer 2017 – present
R-Ladies Global Communication Team
Founder and Co-organizer 2017 – 2019
R-Ladies San Diego
Co-founder and Co-organizer 2016 – 2017
R-Ladies Paris
Team Member 2016
#barbarplots Kickstarter on data visualization
Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics Jan 2016
University of California, San Diego
Thesis: Cross-language Activation and the Phonetics of Code-switching
M.A. in Linguistics June 2009
Northwestern University
Thesis: Semantic Contextual Cues and Listener Adaptation to Foreign-Accented English
B.A. in Linguistics / International Studies June 2009
Northwestern University
Academic Honors: Cum laude, Dean’s List Quarters Fall 2005 – Fall 2007
Skills
Programming Languages: R (expert), SQL (expert), Python (intermediate), JavaScript (beginner)
Preferred Stack: SQL, R::dplyr, R::ggplot2, R::Shiny, R::lme4, Plotly
Tools: Git, Redshift, RStudio, Praat
Languages: English (native), Spanish (conversational), Italian (conversational), French (beginner)
Citizenships: United States of America, Italy