Summary
Jessica Bartley is a data scientist and educator with a Ph.D. in Physics who blends a decade of research, teaching, and AI data annotation experience to build high-precision training datasets and educational programs. She currently leads Handshake’s physics AI annotation team, mentoring cohorts of PhD physicists and authoring onboarding resources for graduate- and research-level problem sets used to fine-tune reasoning-focused LLMs. Her background in computational neuroimaging and NSF-funded experimental work gives her a rare combination of domain expertise, statistical modeling chops, and large-scale project management—she’s managed multi‑TB protected datasets and directed international teams for online course delivery. Equally at home designing personalized learning experiences as she is debugging model reasoning traces, she has repeatedly translated complex scientific problems into actionable datasets and curriculum that improve both human learning and AI performance. Based in the Portland, OR area and active as a freelance data scientist, she prefers roles that let her apply rigorous analytics to meaningful educational and global challenges.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Physics and Mathmatics, cum laude, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Physics and Mathmatics, cum laude at University of Colorado Boulder
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Florida International University