Summary
Marissa Westerfield is a program coordinator and data scientist with over 15 years of experience turning messy, multimodal datasets into actionable insights for public good and product development. She leads data collection and reporting for the City of San Diego’s Climate Action Plan, building dashboards, prioritization scores, and pilot evaluations that guide sustainability investments. Previously she developed EEG and biosignal analysis methods for sleep, migraine prediction, and neurogaming, and architected pipelines to salvage clinical EEG data for autism research. Her background blends rigorous academic training (Ph.D. in Cognitive Science) with hands-on program delivery, supervising teams and liaising across departments to translate technical findings into policy and operational decisions. A practical innovator, she’s as comfortable designing experiments and video-game interventions as she is siting EV chargers using location-based fleet analytics.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego