Summary
Chieko Maene is a data manager and public health data analyst with 11 years of experience designing and implementing data collection, cleaning, and validation workflows for federally funded health research. She specializes in script-driven reproducible analysis using R, Stata, Linux tooling and LaTeX to produce grant-ready tables, manuscripts, and reproducible spatial visualizations. Her expertise spans EHR/EMR processing, demographic and geospatial analyses (including healthcare access evaluations), and secure remote computing on cloud and Linux platforms. Comfortable translating complex multi-source datasets into shareable, reusable scripts and map figures, she has supported CDC and NIH-funded colorectal cancer screening interventions and trained others in GIS and spatial methods. A practical problem-solver with academic roots in urban and information studies, she pairs rigorous data governance with a keen eye for presentation and reproducibility.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Area Studies, Bachelor's degree, Area Studies at Tokyo Woman's Christian University
Master of Science (MS), Urban Studies (and Information Studies - dual degrees), GPA 3.9, Master of Science (MS), Urban Studies (and Information Studies - dual degrees), GPA 3.9 at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Northwestern University (Geographical honor society chapter only)
English, Japanese