Miyabi Ishihara
Ph.D., Statistics, UC Berkeley, 2023
miyabi.ishihara@gmail.com
I’m currently looking for new opportunities involving applied statistics work, but I’m also open to other areas. I’m particularly interested in engaging in thorny societal topics where problems are motivated from the bottom up by those directly experiencing them, as well as in studying how statistical methods behave in practice. I work by learning about the domain topic and probe until I can identify whether it is a data problem, and if so, how statistical methods can be serviceable.
My recent project studied the effect of climate risk by estimating the extent to which current housing markets capitalize on climate and environmental risks, using regression-based causal inference and machine learning methods. Other applied statistics projects include identifying extreme climate events based on spatiotemporal weather data; designing health questionnaires that are short but still maintain reasonable diagnostic accuracy for use as screening tools, based on survey data.
I also spent several years teaching statistics at the university level and am broadly interested in thinking about different ways to communicate statistical concepts and support others in building their statistical competency.
Highlighted applied statistics projects
Climate
Statistical Methods for Characterizing Occurrences and Impacts of Climate (2023)
Miyabi Ishihara
A generalizable and accessible approach to machine learning with global satellite imagery (2021)
Esther Rolf, Jonathan Proctor, Tamma Carleton, Ian Bolliger, Vaishaal Shankar, Miyabi Ishihara, Benjamin Recht, Solomon Hsiang
Health
Shortening self-report mental health symptom measures through optimal test assembly methods: Development and validation of the Patient Health Questionnair-Depression-4 (2019)
Miyabi Ishihara, Daphna Harel, Brooke Levis, Alexander W Levis, et al., Brett D Thombs
Education
Assessment of pedagogical practices and processes in low and middle income countries: Findings from secondary school classrooms in Uganda (2018)
Edward Seidman, Sharon Kim, Mahjabeen Raza, Miyabi Ishihara, Peter F Halpin