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Joy-El Talbot
Custom Learning Solutions Architect
Dr. Joy-El Talbot is a Custom Learning Solutions Architect at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute. In this role, she works with partner organizations to understand their data maturity and learning opportunities and leads course design and strategic planning to build high-quality, impactful experiences. Previously, Dr. Talbot has lectured Roux graduate students in Analytics (College of Professional Studies) and Bioinformatics (College of Science). With the Roux and other institutions, Dr. Talbot has lectured in various mediums (in-person, hybrid, virtual) with undergraduate, graduate, and professional learners on analytics, statistics, bioinformatics, and data visualization.
For over five years, Dr. Talbot has split her time between teaching and consulting as a freelance data scientist. She serves early-stage companies through custom data solutions and strategic guidance. Previously, Dr. Talbot was a consulting data scientist at an Ohio-based consulting firm (now a part of Willow Tree Apps), supporting Fortune 500 clients with data cleanup, conversions, interpretation, and modeling. In all realms, Dr. Talbot focuses on how people bend backward to accommodate their data so that she can help them flip the script and have their data bend backward to accommodate them.
Dr. Talbot holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology from the University of Vermont. However, her first passion was computer programming—starting with an old TI-99/4A in grade school. In graduate school, she found a way to combine both passions through genome-level analyses. Since then, her unquenchable curiosity has driven her to keep exploring, whether it is a new tool, technique, or the business context of a dataset.