Dr. Natalia Panikashvili is a Sr. Research Manager in Acumen, LLC (in SF Bay Area) leading cross-functional teams of policy analysts, software and data engineers, and writer coordinators. She has 10+ years of experience in data science and data analytics providing statistical research using large-scale administrative and survey data to support healthcare decisions. She earned her Ph.D. from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and held postdoctoral fellowships at University of Michigan. Prior to moving to industry in 2013, Dr. Panikashvili was working on development strategies, using data mining techniques, to search for the Higgs Boson and new physics with the ATLAS detector at CERN in Switzerland. During her postdoctoral fellowships she was elected to serve as a member of the Collaboration Board Chair Advisory Group in the ATLAS detector.