Laura Prichard
Advanced Analytics Manager at UCLA Health
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Prichard is an Advanced Analytics Manager at UCLA Health with nine years of experience translating complex scientific problems into production-ready data solutions. Trained as an astrophysicist (PhD, Oxford) and seasoned by research roles at the Space Telescope Science Institute, she brings strong quantitative rigor and statistical modeling expertise to healthcare analytics. At UCLA she progressed from Data Scientist to Senior Data Scientist and now leads a centralized Advanced Analytics team, bridging clinical needs, IT operations, and data science best practices. Her background in observational astronomy gives her a knack for extracting signal from noisy data and designing reproducible analysis pipelines that scale across institutional datasets. Based in Los Angeles, she combines academic depth with pragmatic leadership to drive measurable impact in clinical decision support and operational analytics.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at University of OxfordBachelor's degree, Master's degree, Physics with Astrophysics, First, Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, Physics with Astrophysics, First at University of LeedsUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Latin, French, Russian, German, English
Github Skills (20)
mass-spectrometry8
mercury8
reduction8
infrared8
cosmology8
resample6
astronomy6
hpc-applications5
astropy5
astrophysics5
python5
sky4
science4
fits3
attestation3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lprichard/HST_FLC_corrections
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
lprichard/hst_wfc3_uvis_reduction
Nov 2019 - Apr 2022
Codes to reduce raw HST WFC3/UVIS darks and science data to produce cleaner *flc.fits files than available from MAST for drizzling
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
mastsciencewfc3hpc-applicationsdata-science
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