Addium

Data Scientist

Director, Data Science

calendar_today Sep 2023 - Feb 2025

location_on Remote

  • Manage team by tracking team KPI's & ensure team visibility by collaborating with leadership, engineering, product, and customer success
  • Mentor US & offshore team members by understanding their motivations, helping set goals, giving feedback, and providing technical guidance
  • Develop, scale, maintain OOTB platform feature using signal processing on time series data to calculate water uptake by plants. Feature turn-off & turn-on rate equal since release
  • Build Streamlit data dashboard app to POC a solution that predicts when daily plant irrigation should stop using signal processing and regression

Riverbed Technology

Director, Data Science

Technical Director

calendar_today Oct 2020 - June 2023

location_on Remote

  • Develop intelligent software features using network models, density estimation, hypothesis testing, time series models, cluster analysis, linear models, change point detection to provide customers actionable insights for improving digital experience & network performance
  • Strategize cross functionally in launching real-time ML SaaS product that assists customers to automatically identify and remediate network, application, & end-user device problems
  • Stood up company’s first product data science team to provide data science solutions for multiple computer network and end user monitoring products
  • Recognized as a high potential employee to participate in 360 leadership development program

Walmart

Staff Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

Decision Manager II

2015 Summer Intern

calendar_today Aug 2016 - Oct 2020

location_on Bentonville, AR

  • Boosted online grocery sales by $160 million using Hive to develop an automated weekly audit report for 1 billion store-items that identifies discrepancies among ecommerce site back-end systems to fix items that are erroneously showing as out-of-stock, to provide root cause analysis for back-end system engineers, and to provide leadership with inventory accuracy KPI’s
  • Orchestrated development of AI product that automatically assigns items to slots in a warehouse by gathering requirements from stakeholders, designing linear programming optimization model, preparing dataset via R/SQL/Altyerx, overseeing model improvements and CPLEX implementation, providing logistics leadership with project updates, and launching product in 5 warehouses with estimated $5 million in labor savings
  • Enhanced demand forecasts by cleansing poor historical sales data for every item in all 4,000+ stores using R and Hadoop Hive to implement linear models that predict when a drop in sales is due to unfulfilled customer demand

University of California

Grad Student Researcher

Teacher Assistant

calendar_today Sep 2011 - Aug 2016

location_on Santa Cruz, CA

  • Researched, developed, and applied spatial model selection algorithms such as the Fused LASSO, Bayesian indicator model selection, and Bayesian spatial models to hypersepctral images using R, Matlab, and C++ OpenMP to identify chemicals in gasses released in the atmosphere
  • Produced academic papers with proven interest in PhD research as demonstrated by accepted talks and awards at academic conferences.
  • Mapped connectivity in the brain by fitting ARIMA time series models, dynamic linear models, and the cross-correlation function to MEG brain data in R and Matlab as part of masters thesis
  • Educated undergraduate students in probability and statistics courses with proven effectiveness as showcased in excellent teacher assistant evaluations

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Research Intern

calendar_today Summer 2013 & 2014

location_on Boston, MA

  • Acquired physics knowledge and Matlab skills from expert researchers in spectral imaging and continued remote collaboration as part of PhD research

American Women's Club of Korea

Communications Web Developer

calendar_today June 2025 - Present

location_on Remote & Seoul, SK

  • Design and deploy revamped partners page by writing custom code to repurpose WildApricot Online Store feature to show discounts instead of prices and to disable add to cart functionality

Pathfolk

Freelance Web Developer

calendar_today August 2025 - Present

location_on Remote & Seoul, SK

  • Format Squarespace site consistently and write custom code to use user provided fonts
  • Document Squarespace 7.1 best practices user guide

CTB McGraw Hill

SOX Technical Writer Intern

calendar_today Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

location_on Monterey, CA

  • Discovered weaknesses in and conveyed improvements for SOX compliance to finance team by producing narratives and Visio flowcharts of billing and revenue recognition processes
  • Delivered company-wide presentation explaining company’s financial processes and the importance of SOX compliance

Law Office of W. Parks

Legal Assistant

calendar_today Mar 2009 - Oct 2010

location_on Sunnyvale, CA

  • Advocated over 200 clients in filling out legal forms to successfully discharge debts

Equality California

Administrative Assistant

calendar_today Aug 2008 - Jan 2009

location_on San Francisco, CA

  • Worked for the No On 8 campaign by campaigning for monetary donations and maintaining large donor databases

UC Center Sacramento

Scholar Intern

calendar_today Jun 2008 - Aug 2008

location_on Sacramento, CA

  • Wrote reports analyzing the financial feasibility of bills regarding various topics, such as California’s budget crisis, California’s state prison crisis, and child poverty

PhD, Statistics & Applied Mathematics

University of California

school Jun 2018

location_on Santa Cruz, CA

  • Dissertation: “Model selection methods for linear, non-linear, and spatial data in hyperspectral imagery” with advisor, Dr. Abel Rodríguez
  • NSF S-STATS MODEL Fellowship recipient, 2012-2013 & 2013-2014
  • Courses include: Bayesian statistics, multivariate statistics, linear models, general linear models, non-parametric modeling, spatial modeling, times-series modeling, stochastic processes, machine learning, data mining, econometrics, micro- and macro- economic analysis, financial analysis, corporate finance, accounting

M.S., Statistics & Applied Mathematics

University of California

school Jun 2014

location_on Santa Cruz, CA

  • Thesis: “Time series models for MEG data” with advisor, Dr. Raquel Prado

B.A., Women's Studies & Political Science

University of California

school Aug 2008

location_on Santa Barbara, CA

  • Activities and societies: Events Officer, UCSB Society of Leadership and Success (2006-2007)
  • Courses include: Economics, Modern US Law, Third-World Politics, Philosophy, Gender Studies

Machine Learning Certificate

Cornell University

school Oct 2020

location_on Online

  • Courses in Python covering linear classifiers, decision trees & model selection, kernel machines, deep learning and neural networks

수료증 Certificate of Completion

서올대한국어

Seorae Global Village Center

school Level 1 - Jun 18, 2025

school Level 2 - Summer 2026

location_on Seoul, SK

  • 서올대한국어 is the 6-level Seoul National University (SNU) Korean Language Course
  • Completed Level 1 and will continue to Level 2 in Fall 2025
  • Curriculum includes beginner level Korean grammar, reading, writing, and speaking