Leah Houseman ☕️
Leah Houseman
(she/her)

PhD Student and Programs Officer

I specialize in disability studies, adulthood emergence, and applied data analytics, combining sociological theory with advanced quantitative methods to address health and social inequities. My work bridges research and practice using R and Python for data wrangling, visualization, and reproducible workflows. I am passionate about translating complex demographic and health data into actionable insights for policy and practice. My goal is to leverage these skills to contribute to evidence-based policy and innovative solutions that address health and social inequities, particularly for populations navigating disability and transitions to adulthood. - name: University of Saskatchewan url: https://www.leahhouseman.ca
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Experience

Director of Cloud Infrastructure

GenCoin

Responsibilities include:

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Backend Software Engineer

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Responsibilities include:

  • Migrated infrastructure to a new data center
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Education

PhD Artificial Intelligence

Stanford University

Thesis on Why LLMs are awesome. Supervised by Prof Joe Smith. Presented papers at 5 IEEE conferences with the contributions being published in 2 Springer journals.

MEng Artificial Intelligence

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GPA: 3.8/4.0

Courses included:

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BSc Artificial Intelligence

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GPA: 3.4/4.0

Courses included:

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Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Python
RStudio
PyTorch
Hobbies
Hiking
Cats
Photography
Awards
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Coursera ∙ November 2023
I studied the foundational concept of neural networks and deep learning. By the end, I was familiar with the significant technological trends driving the rise of deep learning; build, train, and apply fully connected deep neural networks; implement efficient (vectorized) neural networks; identify key parameters in a neural network’s architecture; and apply deep learning to your own applications.
Blockchain Fundamentals
edX ∙ July 2023

Learned:

  • Synthesize your own blockchain solutions
  • Gain an in-depth understanding of the specific mechanics of Bitcoin
  • Understand Bitcoin’s real-life applications and learn how to attack and destroy Bitcoin, Ethereum, smart contracts and Dapps, and alternatives to Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm
Object-Oriented Programming in R
datacamp ∙ January 2023
Object-oriented programming (OOP) lets you specify relationships between functions and the objects that they can act on, helping you manage complexity in your code. This is an intermediate level course, providing an introduction to OOP, using the S3 and R6 systems. S3 is a great day-to-day R programming tool that simplifies some of the functions that you write. R6 is especially useful for industry-specific analyses, working with web APIs, and building GUIs.
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Languages
100%
English
80%
Chinese
20%
Portuguese