Stephanie Spielman
Data Scientist
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephanie Spielman is a data scientist and computational biologist with 13 years of experience translating biological questions into robust data-driven solutions. She transitioned from academia—earning a Ph.D. in Computational Molecular Evolution and serving as an instructor and assistant professor—to applied data science roles, most recently at Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. Her work blends statistical rigor, curriculum development, and hands-on computational biology, with a track record of building R-based educational materials adopted for undergraduate biostatistics. Comfortable at the intersection of research and practice, she has led lab-based teaching, developed course curricula, and moved into nonprofit analytics to drive impact-focused projects. Based in Philadelphia, she brings academic depth to practical problems, pairing evolutionary computation expertise with real-world data stewardship. Colleagues describe her as someone who makes complex genomic and statistical concepts accessible to diverse audiences.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Molecular Evolution, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Molecular Evolution at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor’s Degree, Biology, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, General at Brown University
Github Skills (166)
evolutionary10
testing10
spatial-transcriptomics10
simulate10
atlas10
science10
hypothesis-testing10
evolution10
portal10
beast10
phylogenetics10
bioinformatics10
python-bindings10
sequence10
comparative-genomics10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AlexsLemonade/scpca-paper-figures
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Figures for https://github.com/AlexsLemonade/ScPCA-manuscript/
Contributions:158 reviews, 120 PRs, 238 pushes in 1 year 3 months
sjspielman/dragon
Jan 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:9 releases, 42 commits, 382 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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