Nutcha Wattanachit
Data Scientist
Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNutcha Wattanachit is a Senior Data Scientist with seven years of experience applying advanced analytics and AI to drive decision-making in insurance and public health. She helped maintain the COVID-19 Forecast Hub and generated FluSight Network ensemble forecasts in coordination with the CDC, work that informed national response efforts. At The Hartford she progressed from intern to senior data scientist, building ML pipelines, preprocessing infrastructure, and production models for retention and segmentation. Nutcha combines rigorous academic training—a PhD in Biostatistics and a graduate certificate in Statistical & Computational Data Science—with hands-on mentorship experience teaching at Smith College and UMass Amherst. Known for translating complex ensemble and probabilistic models into operational forecasts, she brings a rare blend of academic credibility and production-focused engineering. Based in Northampton, MA, she quietly bridges epidemiological modeling and commercial analytics to deliver high-impact, interpretable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biostatistics at UMass Amherst School of Public Health & Health SciencesGraduate Certificate, Statistical and Computational Data Science, Graduate Certificate, Statistical and Computational Data Science at Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass AmherstMathematics, Mathematics at Smith CollegeInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at United World College Red Cross Nordic
English, Thai, Japanese
Github Skills (31)
visualization10
standardized10
bootstrapping10
forecasts10
data-access10
atmospheric-modelling9
analytics9
traits9
github-pages9
forecast8
interoperability8
reproducible-research7
forecasting6
machine-learning6
python6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NutchaW/covid19_forecast_similarity
Jun 2021 - Aug 2023
A repository for forecast similarity analysis
Contributions:13 PRs, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
similarity-analysissimilarityforecast
NutchaW/forecast_calibration
Nov 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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