Mary Lucas
Instructor Of Record at Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMary Lucas is a Health AI researcher and doctoral candidate (PhD expected 2026) who brings eight years of cross-disciplinary experience melding frontline nursing in emergency and trauma care with quantitative research in clinical machine learning and health informatics. She develops and validates decision-support models using real-world data, emphasizing fairness, robustness, subgroup performance, and uncertainty quantification to enable responsible deployment in healthcare systems. As an instructor and course facilitator at Drexel and Boston University, she translates complex technical concepts (Python, R, SQL, clinical NLP, medical statistics) into practical learning experiences for graduate students. Her background as a physics lecturer and researcher gives her unusual methodological rigor and a systems-level view of data and models, while prior roles in health insurance and medical content review ground her work in operational realities. Based in Philadelphia, she focuses on bridging clinical insight and statistical rigor to build trustworthy, deployable Health AI.
8 years of coding experience
ADN, Nursing, ADN, Nursing at Our Lady of Lourdes School of NursingDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science at Drexel UniversityMaster of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Physics, Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Physics at Moi UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Information Systems - Health Informatics and Data Analytics, Master of Science - MS, Computer Information Systems - Health Informatics and Data Analytics at Boston University
English, Swahili
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Github Skills (37)
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Github contributions (5)
marymlucas/data-screencasts
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Code from live exploratory analyses of data in R
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
r-packageexploratoryrstatsanalyses
marymlucas/marymlucas.github.io
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:265 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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