Hi, I'm Anna — statistician & data scientist

M.Sc. statistician with industry and research experience. I build open-source R statistical software and apply statistical methods across applied and theoretical settings.

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I completed my M.Sc. in Statistics at McMaster University and hold an H.B.Sc. in Applied Statistics & Mathematics from the University of Toronto. I'm currently an R Programmer at McMaster, contributing to lme4 (43.4M+ downloads).

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R Python SAS SQL Excel VBA HTML/CSS Shiny Tidyverse Linear Mixed Models Bayesian Statistics PyTorch Git LaTeX

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STA380 — Winter 2026

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What I'm Working On

BlueDot AI Safety Technical Project · May 2026

Evaluating BalDRO for LLM Unlearning: Alternative Objectives and Cross-Model Generalisation

Extending BalDRO, a robust optimisation method for machine unlearning, by testing alternative forget objectives (WGA, TNPO) and evaluating cross-model generalisation across Llama, Qwen3, and Mistral families using the TOFU benchmark.

Python PyTorch HuggingFace LLM Unlearning