Zachary Kirby
Senior Data Scientist & AI Engineer
Professional Summary
Senior Data Scientist and AI Engineer with 5+ years of experience building machine learning systems for healthcare applications. Specialized in developing production ML models that improve patient outcomes while maintaining high standards for safety and reliability. Passionate about open source development and making AI tools accessible to healthcare workers.
Experience
Senior Data Scientist
Leading GenAI initiatives in healthcare, specializing in prior authorization automation and AI governance.
Key Achievements:
- •Led GenAI initiative in prior authorization, automating urgent request detection achieving high accuracy and adding AI clinical summarization
- •Advised AI Governance Committee on policy decisions for ethical AI use in healthcare
- •Implemented GenAI automation for customer service and MCHAPS survey analysis, cutting turnaround from one week to minutes
- •Managed annual wellness visit outreach model, coordinating delivery of messaging to 30,000+ members
Technologies & Skills:
Data Scientist
Spearheaded GenAI development and predictive modeling for healthcare applications.
Key Achievements:
- •Spearheaded development of in-house GenAI to answer company policy questions, streamlining internal knowledgebase access
- •Built a predictive model for medication non-adherence, published in 2023 ISPOR
- •Led cross-functional outreach on 1,500 Medicare members identified by medication non-adherence model, improving member engagement
Technologies & Skills:
Associate Data Scientist
Developed risk models and optimized data pipelines for healthcare analytics.
Key Achievements:
- •Devised risk driver model to interpret 1,000+ parameters of internal risk model
- •Transformed legacy sklearn models to pyspark pipelines, optimizing for MS Azure
Technologies & Skills:
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Supported students in Operating Systems coursework.
Key Achievements:
- •Supported 150+ students each semester in Operating Systems
Technologies & Skills:
Healthcare Informatics Intern
Developed web feedback analysis tools using topic modeling and sentiment analysis.
Key Achievements:
- •Created web feedback analysis tool using topic modeling and sentiment analysis to summarize thousands of customer surveys, presented results in a PowerBI dashboard
Technologies & Skills:
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Implemented LSTM models for video motion prediction.
Key Achievements:
- •Implemented LSTM model to predict motion in video; co-authored paper in IJCNN
Technologies & Skills:
Skills & Technologies
Data & Analytics
Machine Learning & AI
Cloud & Infrastructure
Tools & Others
Education
Master of Science in Data Science
University of California, Berkeley
2018 - 2020