Elena Goicoechea
Senior Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElena Goicoechea is a senior data scientist with nine years’ experience applying statistical and computational methods to clinical and public health research, currently based at the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division. She brings deep expertise in unstructured data (text, images, time series, complex cohorts), end-to-end predictive pipelines, and causal inference to improve study design and treatment-effect estimation in mental health and neurology. Previously she led research data science at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has a strong quantitative foundation from MS work in Computational Analysis & Public Policy at UChicago and econometrics training at ITAM and the Stockholm School of Economics. Elena combines research rigor with operational focus—translating methodological advances into production-ready, interpretable implementations that health researchers can actually use. An economist-turned-data scientist, she also has experience in policy and monetary research that sharpens her ability to frame health questions within broader population and systems contexts.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Harris School of Public Policy at the University of ChicagoBachelor's degree, Economic Theory, Bachelor's degree, Economic Theory at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México / ITAMEconometrics and Quantitative Economics, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at Stockholm School of EconomicsMaster of Science - MS, Computational Analysis & Public Policy, Master of Science - MS, Computational Analysis & Public Policy at University of Chicago
Spanish, French, English, German
Github Skills (25)
ray8
optimization8
python8
reinforcement-learning8
parallel8
pytorch7
java7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
hyperparameter-optimization6
tensorflow6
large-language-models6
scaling6
data-science6
automl5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ElenaBadilloG/POTUS-Approval-MXN
Jun 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
ElenaBadilloG/sitepickR
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:54 commits, 72 pushes in 2 months
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