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I'm Elda Shatro, a Computer Science student at the University of Illinois Chicago with a passion for data science, machine learning, and software engineering. I love building applications that solve practical problems and transforming messy, real-world data into meaningful insights.
Whether I'm building full-stack applications, designing data pipelines, or training machine learning models, I'm driven by creating technology that makes a real-world impact. Outside of coding, I conduct research, create data science curriculum, and enjoy exploring new coffee spots.
Long dinners with the people who keep me grounded.
An ongoing search for the best espresso in Chicago. Always taking recommendations.
New cities, different cultures and delicious food.
Teaching from the curriculum I developed over the summer — supporting students across the semester's lecture units and weekly assessments.
Built the open-source curriculum unit by unit — lecture source, original figures, practice worksheets, and the PrairieLearn assessment architecture.
Communication skills for computing professionals — presentation organization, visual aides, delivery technique, and argument support — alongside ethical and societal issues in computing: privacy, intellectual property and ownership, and computer crime.
Still building it — a full write-up of the curriculum is on the way.
Unit decks go live as the semester runs — links will land here as they are published.
Course materials are released under CC BY-NC-SA. The toolchain above is specific to CS 418; see the timeline for the other courses I've assisted.
A decade of Chicago's automated traffic enforcement, taken from a raw city dataset to a published interactive dashboard. Querying it surfaced a 10× jump in speed tickets the month the city lowered its ticketing threshold — and that ten of 251 intersections account for a quarter of every violation issued.
Undergraduate research at UIC, advised by Dr. Elena Zheleva. I analyzed the oral microbiomes of 2,997 adults from NHANES 2009 and compared four models to find which bacteria consistently predict immune aging.
Read the paper (PDF)Develop and maintain chapter websites using HTML/CSS and JavaScript.
Provide technical mentorship to CS students on programming concepts and coursework.
Open to data science, analytics, and software roles, research collaborations, and good conversations.