Sanata Sy-sahande
Senior Data Scientist
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSanata Sy-sahande is a Senior Data Scientist based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area with eight years of hands-on experience turning complex healthcare and marketing data into actionable insights. She combines a rigorous statistical background and causal inference expertise—developed through roles at Covera Health and Aetna—with production-focused ML practice from Simon Data to measure the downstream impact of clinical quality on cost and outcomes. Her work spans building scalable claims-processing infrastructure, developing propensity and recommendation models, and leading research that quantifies medical cost savings for client retention and product strategy. Trained in political science and politics at University of Maryland and Princeton, she brings a strong social-science lens to causal questions in health services research. Known for bridging research and engineering, she routinely takes models from experimental validation to production-ready pipelines. Outside core responsibilities, she has applied survival and random-forest methods to urban analytics, signaling a curiosity for diverse, real-world prediction problems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Politics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Politics at Princeton University
Github Skills (4)
location6
recommender5
python4
django4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sanatasy/Restaurant_Risk
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
Restaurant location recommender
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 1 year 2 months
pythonrecommenderdjangolocationrestaurant
sanatasy/Kaggle-Fun
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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