Catherine Hayden, M.S.

Data Science professional specializing in the intersection of Causal Inference and ML.

Pianist in my free time!


Experience

Manager of Econometrics (Data Scientist)

Associate Manager of Econometrics (Associate Data Scientist)

Bliss Point Media, now part of Tinuiti

• Design experiments, build ad hoc analyses, utilize MMM and attribution models to present findings on the impact of client Ad campaigns on KPI’s and ROAS.

• Use SQL in Amazon Redshift to debug and handle all data related requests for the company’s largest client; create aggregated datasets for modeling from ip-level impression and response data.

• Developed an R algorithm to parameterize, extend, and speed up our internal geo-test power simulation by more than 50%.

• romoted within 6 months for exceeding technical and collaboration skills.

Jan 2023 - Present

July 2022 - Dec 2023

BEACoN Research Scholar

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

• Debug a new command in Stata for flexible estimation of multivalued treatment effects using the generalized propensity score.

• Perform literature reviews of advanced econometric theory to apply to project estimating effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on birthweight.

• Contribute to the forthcoming peer reviewed paper by writing a descriptive example of the command using Latex.

January 2021 - June 2022

Teaching Assistant

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

• TA for Programming for Economics and Analytics course taught in Python.

• Hold bi-weekly office hours to help with course concepts from Python fundamentals to exploratory data analysis, machine learning and data mining / Grade exams and homework.

• Substitute for professor on maternity leave by hosting lectures and proctoring exams.

September 2020 - June 2022

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

• Conduct economic research under the supervision of Dr. Jacqueline Doremus

• Perform extensive literature reviews, extract and create datasets pertinent to topics at hand

• Clean, organize and perform analysis on data using R to answer research questions

January 2020 - June 2020

Pianist

Mission San Luis Obispo

• Pianist leading ensemble playing hymns for weekly mass at the mission

• Quickly learn new marterial for each week's songbook

September 2019 - December 2019


Education

Master of Science
Quantitative Economics

With Distinction GPA: 4.0

August 2021 - June 2022

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Bachelor of Science
Economics - Quantitative Analysis

Summa Cum Laude GPA: 3.97

President's List, 2018-2021

September 2018 - June 2021

Mountain View High School

GPA: 4.3

AP Scholar with Distinction

August 2014 - June 2018

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Methodologies
  • (Non)Parametric Causal Inference/Experimentation
  • (Un)Supervised Machine Learning
  • Exploratory Data Analysis
  • Regression Analysis
  • Data Visualization

Projects

  • Food Delivery Apps and Traffic Safety: Using Google Trends for Causal Inference
  • A Stata Package for Semiparametric Estimation of Multiple or Multivalued Treatment Effects for Observational Data
  • Nudging Women into Business and Economics

Awards

2022 Outstanding Graduate Student - Cal Poly, Orfalea College of Business 2022

Outstanding Senior in Economics - Cal Poly, SLO 2021

BEACoN Research Scholarship - Cal Poly, SLO 2020

Summer Undergraduate Research Scholarship - Cal Poly, SLO 2021