Kristin Lee
Senior Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristin Lee is a Senior Data Scientist with nine years of experience bringing rigorous academic training in population genomics into product-facing roles at Spotify and Glossier. She holds a PhD in Population Biology and spent years building statistical inference pipelines and scalable R-based tools to analyze multi-population genomic datasets, work that led to publications in Science and Genetics. At Spotify she translates complex probabilistic models into actionable insights for large-scale data, leveraging deep fluency in R plus SQL, Java, and MATLAB. Kristin is known for quickly learning new tools and for teaching R to diverse audiences, from intensive bootcamps to large undergraduate classes. She combines a mathematician’s precision with practical engineering experience, notably optimizing inference frameworks to run on hundreds of megabase genomes. Based in New York, she excels at bridging interdisciplinary research and production analytics to solve high-impact problems.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Population Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Population Biology at University of California, DavisBachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spanish, English
Github Skills (2)
adaptation9
bioinformatics7
Github contributions (5)
kristinmlee/dmc
Mar 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 1 month
bioinformaticsmodesconvergentadaptationgenomic
kristinmlee/grandis
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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