Summary
Karima Ma is a PhD student at MIT based in Berkeley, California, with a decade of experience bridging machine learning research and production software engineering. Her work spans academic research (doctoral studies at UC Berkeley and MIT, and a CMU project building a DSL for visual question answering) and industry collaborations, including internships at Facebook/FAIR focused on ML-driven image processing and computer vision. She has applied statistical and engineering rigor to real-world problems — at OnDeck she boosted credit-risk AUC by imputing loan amount from FICO — and has built full‑stack multimedia systems in earlier roles. With an MS in computer science from Carnegie Mellon and a BA in economics (minors in CS and Chinese) from Dartmouth, she combines quantitative modeling, systems development, and cross-disciplinary communication. That mix lets her move fluidly between prototyping novel ML architectures and deploying robust, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Major: Economics, Minors: Computer Science, Chinese, Bachelor’s Degree, Major: Economics, Minors: Computer Science, Chinese at Dartmouth College
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese