Heather Simpson

Heather Simpson currently serves as a Manager, Staff Data Scientist, and Data Scientist at Intuit since September 2016. Simultaneously, Heather has been a Fellow at Insight Data Science since June 2016, participating in an intensive post-doctoral training program. Previous experience includes an internship at Medium One, where responsibilities involved creating tutorials and developing code for IoT devices, and a project management role at the Linguistic Data Consortium, overseeing significant linguistic data projects. Heather's academic background includes a PhD in Linguistics with an emphasis in Cognitive Science from UC Santa Barbara, where a dissertation focused on speech processing, alongside teaching roles in various undergraduate courses. Heather's undergraduate education culminated in a BA in Linguistics from Bryn Mawr College.