Layla Bouzoubaa

Researcher and lead Statistical Programmer, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences

Miami

Layla Bouzoubaa is a Lead Research Analyst for the University of Miami (UM) Miller School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS). Additionally, she is the lead Statistical Programmer for UM's Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center's (SCCC) Division of Population Health & Cancer Disparities and SCAN360.com. Currently, she is working in substance abuse research to help target interventions to patients suffering from opioid addiction which includes developing Shiny Apps for resource mapping, data harmonization, and population statistics/visualizations to building models that will inform proper treatment. Layla also has the pleasure of co-instructing "Data Science for Biostatistics", a 6-week summer course for masters and PhD level students within DPHS.

Outside of business hours, Layla co-organizes the Miami chapter of R-Ladies, an international organization that promotes gender equity among the data science community, and Google Developers Group (GDG) Miami, a community group that encourages and enables the discussion of new technologies in South Florida. She also co-organizes the annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Miami conference, is a Google Women Techmaker (WTM) ambassador, and is a facilitator of Google's #IamRemarkable initiative

Aside from her professional loves, Layla is a zealous plant-mom and a wannabe wine connoisseur and food critic.