Summary
Jennifer Staab is a Senior Data Scientist with a deep interdisciplinary background bridging biostatistics, computer science, and bioinformatics, and over two decades of domain expertise applied across industry, academia, and consulting. She currently drives data-quality, automation, and analytics at Electronic Arts, building pipelines, dashboards, and robust metrics that surface strategic insights for stakeholders. Her prior roles include developing AI curriculum at Udacity, leading big-data and health-informatics programs as a university faculty member, and architecting secure AWS high-performance computing environments for genomic research. Jennifer combines production analytics (PowerBI, SQL, Redshift, Hive, Python, R) with research-grade statistical methods from her PhD work, enabling pragmatic solutions that tolerate imperfect data. Notably, she has contributed to educational open-source image-classification code used in Udacity’s popular AI Programming nanodegree, reflecting a commitment to reproducible learning and hands-on mentorship.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSPH, Biostatistics, BSPH, Biostatistics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill