Shawna Larsen, BS

I am excited to join the Tsai Lab at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles as a Junior Data Scientist. I grew up in Newport Beach and recently received my BS from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a double major in Statistics & Data Science and Psychological & Brain Sciences. During my undergraduate studies, I had the opportunity to undertake several projects exploring health and behavioral data, including independently developing a supervised learning algorithm to predict sleep duration and collaboratively conducting hypothesis testing to examine the effects of induced empathy on altruistic behavior. I look forward to applying data science techniques to support impactful research in the Tsai Lab.