Leif Sigerson
Senior Data Scientist
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeif Sigerson is a Senior Data Scientist at Pinterest with eight years of experience combining social psychology and data science to design better signals and promote user wellbeing. He builds measurement frameworks that leverage surveys and human evaluation to inform product decisions, drawing on a PhD in Social Psychology from The University of Hong Kong and research on online engagement and trust. Previously a fellow at Insight Data Science, he has applied analytics to real-world problems like speeding healthcare claims resolution. Based in Hong Kong but with U.S. ties, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and product-focused experimentation, often translating nuanced behavioral theory into actionable metrics.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Religious Studies, B.A, Religious Studies at University of California, BerkeleyThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Spanish
Github Skills (6)
twitter-api7
twitter7
stream6
r6
rest5
api5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
llsigerson/twittnet
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 31 commits, 26 pushes in 2 months
llsigerson/twittnet_python
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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