Afrah Shafquat

Data Scientist

Bio I am a Data Scientist at Medidata Solutions where I work on developing machine learning models to generate insights from clinical trial data. Past experience in ML includes my work as an Insight Data Science Fellow for Maslo.AI, Postdoctoral Associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Data Science Consultant at Slalom Consulting

I have a PhD in Computational Biology (2020) from Cornell University where my dissertation focused on inferring errors in disease diagnoses using Bayesian hierarchical models under the mentorship of Professor Jason Mezey. Prior to Cornell, I graduated from MIT with an S.B. in Biological Engineering (2013).