Unanticipated drug-drug interactions can lead to serious medical issues, or even fatalities. Using publicly available information from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), I developed methods for measuring symptomatic drug-drug interactions based on statistical associations, and showed how automated signal detection can support causality assessment in the pharmaceutical industry and escalate critical safety issues.

What goes into the making of a really great animated movie? Is it superior animation, visual effects, or storytelling? To answer this question, I created interactive plots and network graphs by scraping movie crew data from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

How do animated movie studios hire top notch executive producers? And what types of experiences are considered valuable within this industry? I analyzed movie credits to answer these questions and understand the career paths of first-time executive producers.

I consulted for a healthcare start-up that employs remote coaches to help triathletes improve their race times. I extracted sentiment, punctuation, and emojis from text data, in order to identify features correlated with product success.

My PhD thesis goal was to discover and design new behaviors in synthetic materials by drawing inspiration from biology.