Katherine Wood - Data Scientist (IC4)

Katherine Wood

Data Scientist (IC4)

Seattle, Washington, United States

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Katherine Wood is a data scientist with a PhD in experimental psychology and a decade of experience applying rigorous experimental design and statistical modeling to messy, real-world data. She has progressed from academic behavioral research and large-scale online experiments to senior and staff data science roles, now serving as IC4 Data Scientist at Middesk after leading modeling efforts at Signifyd. Skilled in Python, R, regression, model selection, feature engineering, and NLP, she translates complex data into actionable insights and production-ready models. Her background in controlled experiments informs a disciplined approach to causal inference, validation, and reproducibility that peers rely on for high-stakes decisions. Katherine also builds tooling and pipelines—ranging from automated Mechanical Turk workflows to Streamlit apps and large-scale Spark/Hive ETL—bridging research methods with production systems. Based in Seattle, she combines academic rigor with product-minded execution to deliver reliable, interpretable analytics at scale.

9 years of coding experience

11 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor's Degree, Psychology, Bachelor's Degree, Psychology at University of California, Berkeley

C.K. McClatchy High School

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology (Visual Cognition and Human Performance), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology (Visual Cognition and Human Performance) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Github contributions (5)

katherinemwood/corvids

Jan 2018 - May 2020

Contributions:4 releases, 24 commits, 22 pushes in 2 years 4 months

katherinemwood/katherinemwood.github.io

May 2017 - May 2020

Contributions:215 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years

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