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Maryam Almahasnah

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career interests

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Imperial College London - Imperial Business School

Master of Science in Business Analytics

August 2025 - August 2026

University of California San Diego - Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

Bachelor of Science in Data Science  ·  Minor: Cognitive Science

June 2025

Revelle College, UC San Diego

Data Analyst

Jan 2025 – August 2025

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Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego

Data Science Tutor

Sep 2024 – June 2025

Saudi Telecommunication Company (stc)

Data Science Intern

Aug 2024 – Sep 2024

I interned in the Advanced Analytics Department under the supervision of the prgoram Manager and worked with a sample HR Employee Dataset. My projects consisted of building a model to predict employee attrition as well as grouping employees using a k-means clustering algorithm based on features selected using PCA.

Lobster & More Startup

Co-Head of Marketing & Analytics

May 2024 – present

Brain and Cognition Lab, UC San Diego

Research Assistant

May 2024 – Jan 2025

A Causal Approach to Understanding Student Depression: My Senior Capstone Project (March 2025)

My senior capstone project, supervised by Dr. Jelena Bradic and Dr. Biwei Huang, investiages the root causes of depresseion for students. Several causal discovery and inference methods such as the Peter-Clark (PC) algorithm, the Kernel-based Conditional Independence algorithm and Counterfactual Reasoning were used to analyze features which are potential direct contributors to depression.

French or Spanish? A Language Classifier

Built a language classifier from scratch that can distinguish between Spanish and French words. I used a simple least squares model and bi-gram features; achieved an overall accuracy of 84%+ on the leaderboard, and ranked in the top 55 in a class of 240+ students.

💻 Code

Big O Explained

Interactive scrollytelling website explaining Big O notation for beginners, built with D3 and Svelte. Deployed for use in UCSD courses.

U.S. Presidential Elections

Statistical inference and predictive analysis on MEDSL election data using likelihood ratio tests, goodness-of-fit tests, and EDA.

Male vs. Female Income

Interactive data visualization showing income gaps across fields and over time.

Imperial College London - Global Business Challenge in Ghana

February 2026

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UC San Diego - Revelle in London Global Seminar

Summer 2023

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