Sean Leader

I am a Doctoral student at UC Irvine studying Statistics. I love using my domain knowledge and computational skills to better understand the world around me, in both a personal and professional context. Thank you for stopping by, please feel free to take a look around my website!

Education

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo | B.S. in Statistics | Sep 2019 - Jun 2024

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo | M.S. in Statistics | Sep 2023 - Jun 2024

Experience

Teaching Assistant | UC Irvine | September 2024 - present

Data Scientist | HomeOptions Inc. | Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

Biostatistics Researcher (SIBS) | UC Irvine | Jul 2023 - Aug 2023

Data Scientist | Global Emancipation Network | Jan 2023 - Jun 2023

Textbook Contributor and Editor | Pearson | Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Statistics Tutor | Cal Poly & Self-Employed | Aug 2022 - present

Workshop Leader | Cal Poly | Jan 2023 - Jun 2023

Frost Researcher | Cal Poly | Jan 2021 - Aug 2021

Skills

Skill Example 1 Example 2 Example 3
Data Collection Webscraping API (REST & GraphQL) Survey Design
Data Manipulation tidyverse pandas SQL
ML Modeling scikit-learn tidymodels Amazon SageMaker
Data Visualization ggplot matplotlib seaborn
Statistical Communication Consulting Tutoring Research Presentations
Statistical Methodologies Hypothesis Testing Mathematical Theory Probability

Publications

Chance, B., Tintle, N., Reynolds, S., Patel, A., Chan, K., & Leader, S. (2022). Student performance in curricula centered on simulation-based inference. Statistics Education Research Journal, 21(3). https://doi.org/10.52041/serj.v21i3.6

Lu, T. V., Campos, P., Leader, S., Lee, X., Xu, H., Doran, E., Grill, J. D., & Lott, I. T. (2024). Comparing research attitudes in Down syndrome and non-Down syndrome research decision-makers. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/trc2.12478

Selected Awards

Outstanding Scholarship Award | Cal Poly Statistics Department | 2023

Community Leadership | Cal Poly Statistics Department | 2023

Community Leadership | Cal Poly College of Science and Mathematics | 2023