Summary
Calista Lee is a Business Economics PhD candidate at UC San Diego with eight years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning accounting, data analysis, and full-stack web development. She combines hands-on financial controls expertise—Oracle Financials, GASB compliance, AP/AR reconciliation and tax filings—with research skills in environmental and behavioral economics, including a project on energy efficiency in Vietnam. Calista has internship experience at PwC and Meta programs, contributed to MERN web apps and data science projects using Python/R, and will be CPA eligible upon graduation in June 2025. Known for bridging technical and financial domains, she routinely translates messy datasets into auditable results and has a knack for streamlining processes that saved audit teams meaningful time.
8 years of coding experience
University of California, San Diego
Chancellor's Scholar, Business Economics, Chancellor's Scholar, Business Economics at UC San Diego Chancellor's Associates Scholars Program