About
Harlan Harris
Senior Data Scientist at Kaplan Test Prep
- Location
- Washington, District Of Columbia (Washington D.C. Metro Area)
- Industry
- Research
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Applied researcher and statistical analyst with experience and skills in Operations Research, Statistics and Statistical Programming, Higher Education, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Modeling, Linguistics/Psycholinguistics, Artificial Intelligence. Interested in learning new things and applying scientific methods to understanding how things, processes, and people work.
Specialties
computational and statistical modeling, analysis and presentation of data, research and writing, scientific reasoning, computation and programming (R, Matlab, Perl, C, etc.)
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Senior Data Scientist
Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WPO; Education Management industry
2012 – Present (less than a year)
Responsible for Advanced Analytics projects within the Data Science team. Build and maintain predictive models and optimization systems. Develop insights into a wide range of business and educational data. Coordinate new analytics projects and initiatives with teams throughout the company.
Technical Lead, Inventory Optimization and Research
Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WPO; Education Management industry
November 2009 – January 2012 (2 years 3 months)
Research, design and build statistical systems for operations prediction and optimization. Create A/B experiments to improve understanding of operations policies on the business. Manage back-office product development.
Research Fellow
New York University
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
August 2005 – September 2009 (4 years 2 months)
Developed theories of cognitive processes. Collected experimental data from human subjects. Developed computational and mathematical models. Wrote and reviewed articles, presented research, collaborated with faculty and graduate students.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PhD, Computer Science, Cognitive Science
1996 – 2003
University of Wisconsin-Madison
BS, Computer Science, Linguistics
1991 – 1995
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- Interests:
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data, optimization, statistics, operations research, bayesian analysis, data visualization, education, higher education, learning, psychology, cognitive science, cognitive modeling, neural networks, public transportation, community supported agriculture, food policy, food, cooking, technology, fencing
- Honors and Awards:
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Ruth L. Kirschstein Post-Doctoral National Research Service Award (NRSA), 2007-2009 (priority score 121, %ile 3.8).
Advanced Graduate Teaching Certificate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Office of Instructional Resources, 2003.
Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence Summer Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, 2002.
