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Data Scientist/Software Engineer

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

NLP subject matter expert and advisor for U.S. Government contractor. Create and deploy tools that inject domain knowledge into language models and extract critical information from text using state of the art NLP methods and domain ontologies. Work on every part of the applied AI pipeline: curate data and finetune LLMs to align with critical low-resource missions, create robust information retrieval and extraction systems, steer models during generation, construct thorough output validation and safety mechanisms. Awarded 8 grants to pursue research in AI transparency, concept erasure, summarization, entity disambiguation, LLM domain adaptation, AI red teaming, and multi-modal anomaly detection.

• Lead research teams of 3-6 people
• Present results to internal and external stakeholders
• Act as a trusted government advisor
• Build software that can scale to process publicly available data streams of millions of documents per day

Lead Developer

Speech Surrogates Website

Created a full-stack website and database for Professor Laura McPherson displaying her work on musical surrogate languages.

Software Engineer Intern

Alarm.com

Created scheduled reports to inform property managers about low battery devices throughout the units they manage. Enhanced an existing report that informed property managers of alarms and issues throughout the units.

Software Engineer Intern

Cambly Inc.

Worked on the Android app in Java and Kotlin. Implemented the adult courses pages. Streamlined the chat UI across the app.

Software Engineer

Dartmouth Applied Learning and Innovation Laboratory

Developed full stack websites for start ups and researchers. I built frontends with frameworks such as React and React Native as well as backends with Node.js/Express.js. From September 2020 to June 2021 I was the Women in Science Program lead for DALI and was on the core executive board.

• Deployed web and mobile apps every 10 weeks
• Developer mentor
• Women in Science Program lead
• Created and taught curriculum for introductory web design and devleopment courses

Teaching Assistant

Dartmouth College Computer Science Department

Mentored students in the Object Oriented Programming course. Held weekly recitation sections to help enforce the concepts learned in lectures. Graded all assignments, labs, and tests. Held office hours to collaborate with students to help them develop a deeper understanding of the nuances of the topics.

IT Help Desk Technician

Thayer School of Engineering

Answered computing questions for the students and faculty at Thayer. Worked with clients to solve hardware difficulties. Implemented an organizational system across the computing services at the school.

Counselor

Camp Nicolet for Girls

Responsible for a cabin of 8 13-year-old girls for the 8-week season. Planned, supervised, and executed daily activities, meals, and special events. Selected to lead a week-long advanced water ski skills camp. Led week long canoeing and hiking trips in the back country. Certified in CPR, life guarding, and ski instruction.

MS

Georgetown University

Computational Linguistics

• Corpus Linguistics
• ML for NLP
• Information Theory
• Signal Processing
• Semantics I
• Empirical Methods in NLP
• Syntax I
• Ethics in CL and AI
• Deep Learning for Speech Processing
• Computational Linguistics Research Methods
• ASL 1

BA

Dartmouth College

Computer Science, Linguistics

• Object-Oriented Programming
• Machine Learning
• Linear Algebra
• Algorithms
• Discrete Mathematics
• Computational Linguistics
• Digital Electronics
• Software Design and Implementation
• Databases
• Watson
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Senior Design and Implementation Project
• Introduction to Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Phonology
• Psycholinguistics
• Semantics
• Language Gender & Sexuality

8x peer awards for techincal excellence and leadership

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

7 IP disclosures for original work

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Cum Laude

Dartmouth College