Sydeaka Watson
Senior Advisor (Data Scientist)
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSydeaka Watson is a Senior Advisor and data scientist with a decade and a half of quantitative training and nine years of applied industry experience translating rigorous statistical science into auditable AI/ML products. At Eli Lilly she architects agentic AI and RAG systems with Claude LLMs to automate high-stakes clinical and regulatory workflows, including dual-agent validation for discrepancy detection and user-friendly extraction UIs for non-technical stakeholders. Her background spans biostatistics at the University of Chicago, churn and retail optimization at AT&T, and bespoke deep learning solutions through her consultancy, demonstrating an unusual blend of clinical rigor, production ML, and entrepreneurial product ownership. She builds governance-minded tooling—custom R AutoML packages, automated QA suites, and backtesting pipelines—that makes models defensible in regulated environments. A lifelong educator and diversity advocate who chaired the ASA Committee on Minorities in Statistics, she combines technical mentorship with clear communication to ensure complex models yield actionable business and clinical decisions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S.; Ph.D., Statistics, M.S.; Ph.D., Statistics at Baylor UniversityM.S., Mathematics, M.S., Mathematics at Michigan State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at University of New Orleans
Github Skills (16)
effort10
sas5
stata5
spss4
keras4
r-package4
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
tensorflow3
rstudio2
unconf2
r2
rust2
automl2
hyperparameter-tuning2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
d4bl/COVID19_tracker_data_extraction
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Data is often not collected by Black communities when it is needed the most. We have compiled a list of all of the states that have shared data on COVID-19 infections and deaths by race and those who have not. This effort is to extract this data from websites to track disparities COVID-19 deaths and cases for Black people.
Contributions:639 commits, 92 pushes, 1 comment in 8 months
caseseffortdeathscommunitiescompiled
sydeaka/workflow-automation
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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