Lara Kattan
Clinical Assistant Professor Of Operations Management
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolLara Kattan is a data science manager and educator with 11 years of experience bridging applied analytics, risk management, and curriculum design. Currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at Chicago Booth and an instructor for Data Society and University of Chicago Professional Education, she builds and teaches courses in Python, R, SQL, Tableau, and Snowflake while translating industry practices into classroom-ready content. Her background spans quantitative roles at McKinsey, BMO Harris, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and she led data science teams at EY, giving her practical experience in model risk and financial risk management. Lara is completing advanced credentialing in risk (FRM Part II expected Nov 2023) and recently added a graduate certificate in Weather and Climate Risk and Data Analytics, reflecting a growing focus on climate-related risk modeling. Open to freelance curriculum development, technical writing, and editing, she combines rigorous technical fluency with a knack for making complex methods accessible.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics political science, BA Economics political science at Northwestern UniversityGraduate Certificate Weather and Climate Risk and Data Analytics, Graduate Certificate Weather and Climate Risk and Data Analytics at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster's public policy econometrics, Master's public policy econometrics at University of ChicagoGithub contributions (5)
larakattan/bayesian_inference_pymc3
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
mygittutorial/repoForkTutorial
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
Shell of a GitHub repo with some files to use in a forking/branching tutorial.
Contributions:12 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
branchingforkingshellbash
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