Professional Experience & Collaborations

I am currently seeking opporunities to collaborate with companies and organizations interested in responsible AI (fairness, safety, ethics) and steering AI development and deployment in beneficial directions.

Prior Professional Experience:

Amazon (Fall 2016)

Data Science Intern, Applied Modeling and Data Science Division, Alexa Team

• Developed machine learning classifier for accuracy of Alexa’s responses to verbal requests

• Achieved >90% accuracy compared to hand-coded classification, saving 1,710+ person-hours/month

Insight Analyst, Brandwidth Global (2010 – 2017)

Part-Time Consultant

• Conducted online social listening studies with 1,000+ participants/study, including global “webnographies” involving participants in 5-7 countries; studies queried consumers’ health concerns and product perceptions

• Created and delivered 20+ presentations to global marketing directors of healthcare companies including Pfizer, Merck, and Boehringer Ingelheim

• Harnessed cutting-edge psychology research to build market strategies for products in conception through relaunch stages of development