Experience

Benson Hill

• United States
• Food Production
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Data Scientist I

  • Jan 2023 - Present



Missouri Botanical Garden

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • May 2018 - Dec 2022

  •Responsible for testing and training models to predict species distributions and presenting recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences at regional, national, and international meetings •Worked with data at all stages of the pipeline from data extraction of millions of records from APIs, data cleaning, statistical analysis, modeling, and visualization •Wrote 4 scientific publications (2 first author) and documented reproducible code for all projects on GitHub •Responsible for testing and training models to predict species distributions and presenting recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences at regional, national, and international meetings •Worked with data at all stages of the pipeline from data extraction of millions of records from APIs, data cleaning, statistical analysis, modeling, and visualization •Wrote 4 scientific publications (2 first author) and documented reproducible code for all projects on GitHub



University of Miami

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research and Teaching Assisstant

  • Aug 2010 - May 2017

  •Collected and managed multiple complex biological datasets •Developed predictive models using machine learning for real-world problems •Mentored over 300 students in hypothesis-driven A/B testing and data analysis in R and Excel •Secured over $10,000 in funding in competitive grants •Collected and managed multiple complex biological datasets •Developed predictive models using machine learning for real-world problems •Mentored over 300 students in hypothesis-driven A/B testing and data analysis in R and Excel •Secured over $10,000 in funding in competitive grants