Amanda Bower
PhD Candidate
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmanda Bower is a machine learning researcher and data scientist with a PhD in Applied Mathematics and nine years of experience building responsible, production-scale recommender systems. She has a strong theoretical foundation paired with hands-on experimentation at companies like Twitter and Netflix, where she shipped a recommendation fix that reduced inequality by 1.3% while improving quality by 2.28%. Her work focuses on algorithmic fairness, transparency, and accountability, including metrics and tooling now used internally to evaluate bias across ranking and moderation models. Amanda also mentors students and publishes first-author research on responsible recommendation, blending rigorous math with pragmatic solutions for real-world harms. Based in Ann Arbor, she maintains an academic-to-industry bridge that makes her equally comfortable proving theorems and running A/B tests.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate SchoolBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at University of Michigan-Dearborn
Github Skills (18)
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language-server-protocol8
loader8
eclipse7
webpack-loader7
theia7
html-webpack-plugin6
typescript6
java6
webpack5
desktop5
editor5
css5
electron5
javascript5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Amandarg/amandarg.github.io
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:103 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
Amandarg/quad_feas
Nov 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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