Spencer Pease
Research Scientist at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Pease is a research scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation with a decade of experience turning data-dense scientific problems into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders. He combines formal training in health metric sciences, informatics, and physics from the University of Washington with hands-on roles spanning scientific programming and research at IHME and Mazama Science. Spencer focuses on bridging scientists and decision-makers using principles of open science and information theory to make complex analyses accessible and trustworthy. His background in applied mathematics and data science informs rigorous quantitative methods while his consulting experience emphasizes web-based delivery of vetted datasets. Based in Seattle, he is equally comfortable implementing reproducible analysis pipelines and translating results into engaging narratives for policy and public audiences. Notably, his career progression at IHME from post-bachelor fellow to research scientist reflects a sustained commitment to applied health metrics and collaborative science communication.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS, Health Metric Sciences, Master of Science - MS, Health Metric Sciences at University of Washington - School of MedicineBachelor of Science - BS, Informatics (Data Science), Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics (Data Science) at University of Washington Information School
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Github Skills (17)
monitors10
data-monitoring9
demographics8
demography8
toolbox7
parquet6
statistics6
plot6
java6
monitoring6
apache5
in-memory5
python4
apache-arrow3
interchange2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
spencerpease/wikiChime
Jul 2017 - Jan 2019
Project work for DXARTS 470: Sensing And Control Systems Summer '17
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 6 months
control-systemsproject-worksummersensing
spencerpease-classes/amath483
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:58 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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