• Born in Russia, raised in CO, with brief stints in British Columbia and Nevada
• Excited about running, mountain biking, climbing, downhill skiing/ski touring/nordic skiing
• Inclined to enjoy reading, painting and photography
• Educated in math and statistics
• Interested in population epidemiology, public health, climate science and journalism

• 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;
• led an intro to data science webinar for a grade school audience;
• authored a white 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;
• modeled likelihood of health outcomes using social determinants of health;
• enduro and cross country mountain bike coach for high school girls;
• optimized an xgboost time series model to predict day sales outstanding for the medical supply chain;

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.

Enjoy a peek into the world through my lens.

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