
Leo Ohyama, Ph.D
Data Science Coordinator
Leo serves as the data science coordinator for the New Worlds Reading Initiative (NWRI) at the Lasting Center for learning. In this role, Leo is responsible for analyzing and evaluating the efficacy of the NWRI across the hundreds of thousands of students it serves. Additionally he helps provide data-based insights into the performance and efficiency of the program’s many teams.
Leo comes from a biodiversity research background where spent ~10 years studying and publishing research on ants (his first passion). His work spans running multi-year field experiments in Central Florida all the way to assessing ant and insect biodiversity at global scales. Throughout this experience he developed skills in quantitative methods and statistical analyses.
Leo has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Boise State University, a master’s degree in biology from the University of Central Florida, and a doctorates degree in Entomology from the University of Florida. He has also held research associate and postdoctoral fellow positions at Yale and the University of Michigan respectively.