Nicolette Laird

Experience

1. Data Scientist

   Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

   Apr 2022 — Present

   Led a team of four researchers and developed a computer vision and optical character recognition pipeline for on-prem document reconstruction, translation, and downstream NLP-applications•Designed an evaluation framework to help researchers quantify the quality of synthetic data for downstream analyses, using CTGAN and large language models (GPT2/LLaMa-7b)•Developed computer vision models to improve anomaly and object detection in radar images using masked autoencoders and YOLO models•Modernized, Dockerized, and deployed deep learning and NLP models to identify relevant scientific literature and news articles to inform public health decisions and disaster response preparedness (i.e. epidemic planning)•Integrated research R code into a feature for the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory user facility•Organized monthly science seminars for company cohesion, collaboration, and networking, collaborating with internal and external speakers

Skills

• Php
• Western Blotting
• Gel Electrophoresis
• Nmr Spectroscopy
• Customer Service
• Teaching
• Tissue Culture
• Sql
• Pcr
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Lifesciences
• Eclipse Luna
• Microsoft Office
• Research
• Java
• Python
• C
• Ir Spectroscopy
• Teamwork
• Public Speaking
• Machine Learning
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Recrystallization
• Microsoft Word
• Leadership
• Life Sciences
• Social Media
• Mathematica
• Phpmyadmin
• Chemical Synthesis
• Mathematical Modeling
• X-Ray