Lena Bradley
Staff Data Scientist
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLena Bradley is a Staff Data Scientist in Boston with 10 years of experience translating advanced physics and biomedical engineering training into production ML systems and team leadership. After earning a PhD from Cornell in Applied and Engineering Physics, she progressed from data science fellowships into technical leadership roles—most recently leading perception metrics and now staff-level data science at Zoox. She has a track record of building and scaling data teams and metrics-driven pipelines in safety-critical domains, blending hands-on modeling with people management. Lena’s background as Chief Engineer and Data Science Manager across startups and applied-AI firms gives her a rare mix of deep technical rigor and operational delivery. Notably, her interdisciplinary education and early engineering leadership enable her to bridge research, product, and engineering for real-world autonomous perception systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Honors in Physics, Minors in Bioengineering and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Honors in Physics, Minors in Bioengineering and Mathematics at Penn State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied and Engineering Physics, Minor in Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied and Engineering Physics, Minor in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (12)
vscode5
vscode-extension5
minesweeper5
machine-learning4
jupyter4
typescript2
databricks1
sqltools1
sqlite1
sql1
database1
jupyter-extension1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lenabradley/lenabradley.github.io
Jan 2020 - Oct 2023
Contributions:22 PRs, 44 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 9 months
itaicohengroup/DDE_python
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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