Katherine Shakman
Sr Data Scientist, Clinical Research
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatherine Shakman is a senior health data scientist based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience applying experimental design, analytics, and machine learning to clinical and population health problems. Trained as a neuroscientist with a PhD from Columbia and a Caltech undergraduate background, she translated neural imaging and behavioral research on attention and memory in insects into data-driven approaches for human health. At companies including Lyra Health, Evidation, and Domino Data Lab she combines technical communication, project management, and production-ready analytics to drive clinical research and product insights. Katherine is comfortable bridging academia and industry—leveraging rigorous experimental methods alongside scalable data platforms—to make measurable public health impact. An understated strength is her ability to turn complex neurobehavioral paradigms into pragmatic data pipelines that inform clinical decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyCollaboratory@Columbia University Data Science Bootcamp, Collaboratory@Columbia University Data Science Bootcamp at Columbia University in the City of New York
Github Skills (6)
python-bindings10
domino10
api9
python8
water2
nyc2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
katieshakman/kimaging
Apr 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 39 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 1 month
pythonimagingastronomycalcium-imagingcode-analysis
katieshakman/katieshakman.github.io
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 76 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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