Rebecca Weiss
Executive Director at Pew Research Center
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolRebecca Weiss is an executive leader and data scientist with 14 years of experience translating social science, policy, and technical research into mission-driven products and organizational capability. She has built and scaled data science teams and departments from the ground up at Mozilla, led multi-million-dollar product launches like Rally, and now guides MLCommons as Executive Director while serving on the Pew Research Center board. Her background spans rigorous academic training (PhD, Stanford; SM, MIT) and hands-on experimentation in behavioral and survey methods, making her adept at bridging research, privacy-conscious data stewardship, and product strategy. Sought as a speaker and consultant by universities and policymakers, she combines deep technical fluency with a talent for building multi-disciplinary teams and partnerships that surface real-world impact. An under-the-radar strength is her track record of turning academic methods into scalable consumer-facing platforms and industry-facing governance initiatives.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
S.M., Technology Policy, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, S.M., Technology Policy, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Cognitive Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Cognitive Systems at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Communication, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Communication at Stanford University
Github Skills (22)
mozilla8
firefox7
data-collection6
firefox-webextension5
thunderbird4
recipe4
python3
webextension3
javascript3
testing3
reproducible-science3
consumption3
gecko3
firefox-addon3
chrome-extension2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rjweiss/VAM-Python
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 2 days
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