CV
Education
- B.A. in Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020
- M.A. in Statistics with a Specialization in Data Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022
- Ph.D. in Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2026 (expected)
Experience
- Statistician Intern at Bayer (Pharmaceutical Division)
- Duties included: Leveraged propensity score methods, targeted learning techniques (TMLE), and Bayesian dynamic borrowing to augment internal clinical trial data with external electronic healthcare records
- Summer 2025
- Graduate Research Assistant at UCSB Department of Statistics & Applied Probability (Mengyang Gu Group)
- Duties included: Developing an automatic cell microscopy image segmentation method using Gaussian processes for smoothing, novel adaptive thresholding criteria for detecting foreground objects, and watershed for segmentation; investigating the use of denoising diffusion generative models (DDPMs) for generating future frames in microscopy videos
- Advisor: Dr. Mengyang Gu
- February 2021 - Present
- DataLab Graduate Consultant at UCSB Department of Statistics & Applied Probability
- Duties included: Advising faculty and graduate researchers across different departments on statistical methods, including result interpretation, model building, and software selection
- September 2024 - May 2025
- Data Science Intern, Advanced Analytics at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
- Duties included: Performing time series feature engineering for machine learning models to predict clinical trial site enrollment; conducting exploratory analysis for the application of generative AI tools in clinical trial research
- June 2024 - September 2024
- Undergraduate Research Assistant at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health
- Duties included: Using R to analyze associations between epigenetic outcomes, socioeconomic status, and exposure to air pollution
- Advisor: Dr. Radhika Dhingra
- October 2018 - April 2020
- Intern at Delegate Advisors
- Duties included: Categorizing fund offerings and organizing electronic file system structure
- May 2019 - April 2020
- Research Intern at the Environmental Protection Agency
- Duties included: Using R to conduct exploratory analysis to determine associations between DNA methylation and pathways to all-cause mortality
- Supervisor: Dr. Cavin Ward-Caviness
- Summer 2019
- Undergraduate Research Assistant at the UNC Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry
- Duties included: Utilizing CRIPSR, transfection, and other cell cloning techniques to prepare cell lines to use in analysis of the effect of DNA looping on gene expression
- Supervisor: Dr. Jill Dowen
- May 2017 - October 2018
Honors and Fellowships
- Phillips Ambassador Scholarship (2018)
- Undergraduate scholarship to study abroad in Asia (CET Beijing)
- Regents Fellowship (2020)
- Offered to one incoming graduate student in the Statistics & Applied Probability Department at UCSB
- BioPacific MIP Associate (2022 - 2023)
- Invited to participate in research discussions covering various bio-materials topics with the BioPacific NSF Materials Innovation Program
- Johnson & Johnson Inspire Award (2024)
- Awarded for exceptional project work during summer internship
Skills
- Coding: R, Python (advanced); SAS (working proficiency); SQL, Java (basic proficiency)
- Languages: Chinese (working proficiency) and Spanish (basic proficiency)
Publications
Software
- “Plotzing,” an R package for customizable, publication-quality plots in a single line of code, 2025. Developed by Gelbart, B., with contributions from King, B. GitHub.
Teaching
Talks
Service and Leadership
- Current Positions:
- Rehabilitation shift volunteer at Channel Islands Marine Wildlife Institute: assist in veterinary procedures to treat rescued seals and sea lions
- Previous Positions:
- PSTAT Comittee Adjunct Officer: assist in planning social events and discussing student and faculty needs in the statistics department at UCSB
