Duane Lee
About
I'm an AI and data consultant, and I was a senior data scientist at Labviva.
Experiences
- Senior Data Scientist at LabvivaBuilt a price index for 30M+ lab supplies
I wrote the SQL and models behind it, and the index made a tiered upsell strategy possible for the business.
- CharitySang in a rock showdown to fund pediatric cancer care
I signed up as a singer for Tech Tackles Cancer and asked friends to donate to my page for the cause.
- Data Scientist at Audacy, Inc.Forecast ad demand for 850+ radio stations
I kept the pipeline steady through MLB playoff traffic and cut forecast error 15%+ in peak ad windows.
- Quantitative Researcher at Apptopia Inc.Led mobile-app forecasts that beat established methods
We benchmarked them against Airbnb, Netflix, and Amazon. When it ended, I asked my network for help finding what's next.
- Data Scientist at Tamr Government Solutions Inc.Modeled F-16 payload safety for the government
I turned flutter-threshold analysis into risk guidance that non-technical government stakeholders could act on.
- MLK Visiting Scholar Fellow (Physics) at MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space ResearchStudied star chemistry and mentored minority PhD students
As an MLK Visiting Fellow I founded an outreach and funding initiative at MIT and taught radio astronomy.
- SpeakingUsed the Drake equation to measure the Black STEM pipeline
I gave a talk applying the astronomer's famous estimate to how many Black Americans make it through STEM.
- 3Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Astronomy at Columbia UniversityTrained as an astronomer, then brought it to data science
Williams, Wesleyan, then a Columbia PhD. I still treat every business as a complex system to understand.