Badges
Certifications
Work Experience
Statistics Research Assistant
Texas Christian University• August 2020 - Present
• Develop a model to measure reading accuracy for elementary school students using students’ reading ability data • Assist in developing statistical models focusing on discrete distribution that capture heterogeneity in reading accuracy data • Derive parameter estimates along with standard error estimates for the developed models • Code model fitting and model evaluation in R
Data Scientist
COUNTRY Financial• May 2020 - August 2020
• Built two predictive classification models in Python to detect smoker propensity and liar detection using user profile data to help reduce insurance fraud • Preprocessed the data using SQL on Hive/Spark, performed exploratory data analysis using Matplotlib/Seaborn inPython, developed a supervised machine learning model with XGBoost to achieve AUC score of 0.74 and precision score of1.00 • Presented results to life executive leadership and recommended deployment options, planned deployment H22020 • Developed a Python application using Requests to scrape NOAA weather spotter and radar data for claims use cases
Helpdesk Technician
Luther College IT Department• November 2018 - May 2019
• Served as the first point of contact for over 2000 students, faculty, and staff seeking technical assistance over by phone, email, walk-in, or web submission • Troubleshot and remotely accessed user’s desktops using VNC or Join.me services • Installed and upgraded desktop operating systems, software, hardware, and workgroup printers
Education
Texas Christian University
Mathematics, BS• August 2018 - Present
Exam FM (Financial Mathematics), Sitting, December 2020 Exam P (Probability), Sitting, July 2021