Summary
Ana Mendez is a Senior Data Scientist with a PhD in Music Technology from NYU and eight years of experience applying human-in-the-loop, active learning, and evaluation frameworks to audio, NLP, and LLM problems at Apple, Microsoft, Bosch, and Grid Dynamics. She specializes in designing annotation pipelines and prompt-optimized synthetic data generation that reduce human labeling effort while preserving or improving model quality. Her research background in machine listening informs practical systems for model training and automated plus human-centered evaluation of generative models. Known for marrying rigorous academic methods with production-focused engineering, she builds metrics and workflows that make large-scale data work more efficient and reliable. Based in New York, she brings a rare combination of DSP/music tech expertise and hands-on ML tool design that helps bridge research and product impact.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Systems Engineering at Universidad Metropolitana (VE)
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Music Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Music Technology at New York University
Advanced Degree, Digital Marketing, Advanced Degree, Digital Marketing at Quality Leadership University
Spanish, English