Hi, I’m Ksenia Lepikhina (she/her). Born in Russia, raised in Colorado, located in British Columbia. Trained in math and statistics, academically interested in population epidemiology, public health, social justice, climate science and journalism, extracurricularly excited about running, mountain biking, climbing, downhill skiing and nordic skiing, and inclined to enjoy reading, painting and photography.
My career background is quite diverse. A brief work resume:
- patched bike frames through carbon repair;
- analyzed automatic gain control data for GPS to flag potential jamming and spoofing attacks;
- researched permafrost degradation in the north slope of Alaska by looking at snow seasonality, brightness temperature and soil moisture;
- used machine learning models to optimize a fixed versus variable price ad tech problem;
- studied elliptic curve cryptography;
- researched clustering of malicious IPs;
- assisted teaching two levels of undergraduate/ graduate statistical methodology;
- independently led an intro to data science webinar for a grade school audience;
- used NLP to automate email responses to reduce customer support team load;
- performed time series analysis to forecast customer support ticket count;
- primary authored a paper discussing initial impacts of COVID-19 on the citizen science and education sectors;
- performed statistical analysis to measure hospital quality and update hospital ratings;
I acknowledge that my identity impacts every aspect of my life from what I write, to what I photograph, to what I read, to what and how I teach, to my service, to my gaze and my status.
I acknowledge that the land that I grew up on is the Traditional Territory of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute and the land I live on is the Traditional Territory of the Sinixt, First Nation People. Colorado’s Front Range and the West Kootenay region of BC are contemporary and traditional sites of trade and gathering for many Indigenous peoples.