Before joining the faculty in the Department of Statistics, Kate was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to that, she was the Head of Data Science at Aclima Inc, where she was responsible for research and development of high resolution hyper-local air pollution maps. She has also worked as a senior data scientist at Climate LLC, where she used data science to grow crops and protect the environment. She received her PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Washington, Seattle.