Jessica Forde

Jessica Forde is a PhD student at Brown University, specializing in Artificial Intelligence with a focus on Reinforcement Learning in Healthcare. Forde's professional experience includes roles as a research intern at Databricks Mosaic Research and Facebook, along with previous positions as a lecturer at Tufts University and a core maintainer for Project Jupyter. Forde has also contributed as a visiting fellow at Harvard University and as a visiting academic at NYU Center for Data Science. Prior experience includes working as a data scientist at McKinsey & Company and Expanse, where contributions included the development of an open-source machine learning library for Bayesian nonparametric models. Educational qualifications encompass a Master's degree in Statistics from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree from Wellesley College.