Sophia Koch
Data Scientist
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSophia Koch is a data scientist with nine years of experience applying quantitative and ecological expertise to public health challenges, currently leading wastewater surveillance analytics for the California Department of Public Health. Formerly a doctoral researcher at the University of Chicago in Ecology and Evolution, she brings rigorous modeling, field-informed inference, and experimental design to pathogen monitoring and communicable disease control. Based in California, she blends academic depth from a PhD/MS with practical, policy-facing data products that support outbreak detection and response. Passionate about leveraging data science for global good, she has a track record of translating complex ecological dynamics into actionable public-health insights.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Ecology and Evolution, PhD, Ecology and Evolution at University of ChicagoBA, Biology, BA, Biology at Lewis & Clark College
Github Skills (8)
spatial-data7
vector6
python5
raster5
revit-api5
spatial5
glossary4
gdal3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sophiahorigan/PathogenCompetition_ModelFitting
Sep 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:116 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
NRT-DSEER/computing-for-research-2022
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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