Resume
Research Analyst Nov 2025—Present
- Led data strategy for medical education research across curriculum innovation, assessment, and training systems
- Engineered an end-to-end LLM pipeline (GitLab, Azure, Microsoft Foundry) to transcribe OSCE recordings via Whisper, apply NLP to de-identify and clean transcripts, and generate formative feedback with quality checks
- Designed and deployed a faculty review interface (Quarto, HTML/JS) for evaluating AI-generated feedback with a secure offline workflow meeting data regulatory requirements
- Engineered a second ML pipeline for first-pass grading of open-ended assessment responses with reproducible workflows and version control
- Designed and deployed the Medical Education Research Hub, a Posit Connect dashboard aggregating project metadata via the Google Sheets API as the office’s central research directory
- Extracted, integrated, and visualized learner interaction data via the Learning Pool API for ad hoc reporting
- Automated reproducible reporting with GitLab and Quarto, delivering cohort summaries and visualizations to faculty and staff
- Designed and deployed the unit website
Data Scientist Sep 2021—Oct 2025
- Led data strategy for grant-funded health research, translating research questions and partner needs into analytic workflows across healthcare and government data systems
- Designed health record and REDCap integrations for a state-funded opioid treatment initiative
- Engineered ETL pipelines in R and DuckDB to consolidate clinical, operational, and research data across a 250+ site treatment network
- Automated reproducible reporting with GitLab and Quarto for data quality validation, delivering population summaries and visualizations to clinicians and directors
- Applied Bayesian multilevel modeling to identify predictors of patient retention in care management
- Wrangled administrative court data across three counties for an Arnold Ventures criminal justice project
- Applied frequentist multilevel models to evaluate racial disparities in pretrial bail and created D3 Sankey visualizations tracking case outcomes from arraignment through sentencing
- Designed a MySQL database for centralized project and implementation tracking with optimized SQL queries linking operational and geographic data across studies
- Designed and deployed data collection tools (REDCap, Qualtrics) and BI dashboards (Shiny, Tableau) for project teams and government partners, including a DEA dashboard monitoring suspicious prescribing patterns
- Mentored junior data staff across recruitment, onboarding, and professional development
Master of Arts—Social Psychology 2018—2020
- Completed Statistical Computing I and II in R
- Served as Research Assistant in the Psychoneuroendocrinology Lab
- Served as Teaching Assistant in undergraduate psychology courses (Introduction to Psychology, Biopsychology, and Psychology of Gender)
Bachelor of Arts—Psychology 2014—2018
2022
Dimant, E., Clemente, E. G., Pieper, D., & Azevedo, F. (2022). Politicizing mask-wearing: Predicting the success of behavioral interventions among Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Scientific Reports, 12, 7575.
2021
Gelfand, M. J., Li, R., Stamkou, E., Denison, E., Fernandez, J., Choi, V., Chatmen, J., Jackson, J. C., Pieper, D., & Dimant, E. (2021). Persuading conservatives and liberals to comply with mask-wearing: An intervention tournament. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Gelfand, M. J., Jackson, J. C., Pan, X., Nau, D., Pieper, D., Denison, E., Dagher, M., Van Lange, P. A. M., Chiu, C., & Wang, M. (2021). The relationship between cultural tightness–looseness and COVID-19 cases and deaths: A global analysis. The Lancet: Planetary Health.
2020
Pieper, D. J. (2020). Challenging social systems under the threat of pollution: Replication and extension of Eadeh and Chang (2019) [Master’s thesis, University of Northern Iowa]. UNI ScholarWorks.
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Transfer REDCap data to a database and use in R without exceeding available memory |