Sophie Kajfez
United States
Summary
Aspiring data scientist with a strong background in computational neuroscience research. Experienced programmer with a passion to continue learning new skills. Seeking a challenging and career-developing role as a data scientist.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Research Associate
San Diego State University Research Foundation
San Diego, CA
11.2022 - Current
- Designed and developed algorithms to detect anomalies and artifacts in the data that sped up the overall preprocessing of the data saving 20 hours of manual work per dataset and had an 80% detection rate.
- Interpreted and analyzed data using linear regression, principal component analysis (PCA), hierarchical clustering and other statistical analyses leading to valuable insights that led to an award winning research presentation.
- Streamlined data analysis pipelines increasing the efficiency that allowed PhD students and peers to access data 25% quicker.
- Designed and built 2 applications to visualize data and aid in hypothesis formulation.
Neuroimaging Research Associate
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA
07.2019 - 12.2022
- Designed 5 different algorithms aiding the analysis of 3 large datasets, reducing manual labor by 100s of hours.
- Analyzed 30+ sources of multivariate data to identify significant findings, enabling the creation of written publications.
- Utilized coherence, correlation, covariance and co-occurrence measures to determine the relationships between signals originating from different brain regions.
- Investigated ~50 research papers to help design methodology, which contributed to findings never been found before.
- Created visualizations for conferences that increased viewership and aided the understanding of the findings.
- Worked with PhD students and PI to support ongoing research and analytic initiatives to increase productivity.
Research Associate
Chapman University
Orange, CA
10.2020 - 07.2022
- Extracted raw data from Web of Science to generate analysis of gender trends in language research authorship overtime.
- Created online questionnaires and experiments used to reach over 300 participants and led to findings on how to increase reading speed and comprehension of by 25%.
- Managed data collection and organization of research data, which led to published research findings.
- Developed programs extracted, organized and prepared data for analysis and presentation, increasing speed of analysis by 15%.
Education
Psychology
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA05.2020
Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Statistical Analysis
- Data Visualization
- Processing Large Data Sets
- MatLab
- R
- Unix/ Linux
- Familiar with: Python (NumPy, Pandas), Jupyter Notebook, and MySQL
Certification
- Data Science: Wrangling, HarvardX - 2021
- Data Science: Inference and Modeling, HarvardX - 2020
- Data Science: Probability, HarvardX - 2020
- Data Science: Visualization, HarvardX - 2020
Timeline
Research Associate
San Diego State University Research Foundation
11.2022 - Current
Research Associate
Chapman University
10.2020 - 07.2022
Neuroimaging Research Associate
University of California, San Diego
07.2019 - 12.2022
Psychology
San Diego State University
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