Lea Frank is a Business Data Scientist with eight years of quantitative research and industry experience, recently focusing on marketing experimentation and causal inference at the Los Angeles Times and WHOOP. She designs and scales A/B testing programs, led multiple observational studies using methods like regression discontinuity and Bayesian structural time-series, and built an XGBoost churn model achieving ~83% accuracy. Lea routinely translates complex analyses into stakeholder-ready tools—authoring interactive Shiny dashboards and prototypes such as an AB-testing chatbot that blends prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation. With a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, she brings rigorous experimental design and neuroimaging pipeline automation experience to product-focused analytics, helping teams double testing velocity and unlock multi-million dollar revenue impact.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience / Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience / Psychology at University of Oregon
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology at Marist College
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