Alessandra Valcarcel
Senior Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandra Valcarcel is a Senior Data Scientist in San Francisco with a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Pennsylvania and eight years of experience translating complex biomedical data into actionable insights. She combines classical statistical rigor with modern machine learning, honed through neuroimaging research and multi-modal analysis during her doctoral work. At Genentech she has progressed from Statistical Scientist to Senior Data Scientist, applying principled modeling to drug-development and translational science problems. Her background spans experimental design, causal inference, and imaging-derived feature discovery, making her adept at bridging methodological development and applied clinical questions. Fluent in Spanish and experienced in collaborative academic and industry teams, she brings both deep technical expertise and strong communication skills to multidisciplinary projects. An inquisitive researcher at heart, she often pursues novel feature-exploration strategies that reveal clinically meaningful patterns not captured by off-the-shelf pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, Spanish at Universidad de GranadaBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Statistics (Honors) and Biology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Statistics (Honors) and Biology at University of ConnecticutMaster of Science (M.S.), Biostatistics, Master of Science (M.S.), Biostatistics at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish
Github Skills (27)
mimosa10
r10
package10
r-package9
react9
github8
probability7
segmentation7
posters7
ninja4
rmarkdown4
core-package4
knitr3
remarkjs3
markdown3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
avalcarcel9/rtapas
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
An R package to implement TAPAS: A Thresholding Approach for Probability Map Automatic Segmentation
Contributions:4 PRs, 117 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
r-packageapproachtapasthresholdingprobability
avalcarcel9/Website
Feb 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 182 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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