Angelina Mcmillan-major
Senior Computer Specialist at University of Washington
United States
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Top SchoolAngelina Mcmillan-major is a computational linguist and Senior Computer Specialist at the University of Washington with nine years of experience at the intersection of language, technology, and community-centered dataset design. She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from UW, where her dissertation proposed collaborative approaches for planning language datasets with language communities—a thread that runs through her work on dataset documentation and curation at Hugging Face and BigScience. Her background spans applied linguistics projects like POS-tagging system development at Appen and hands-on language education initiatives, giving her a rare blend of technical, research, and outreach experience. Known for translating technical motivations and societal impacts of language technology for diverse audiences, she focuses on language documentation, reclamation, and intentional dataset practices that prioritize community agency.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics at University of Washington
French, Japanese, Russian
Github Skills (20)
pytorch10
evaluation10
data-science10
data-manipulation10
pandas10
machine-learning10
semantics10
manipulation10
datasets10
numpy10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
speech10
natural-language-processing10
computer-vision10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Linguistics575/POCRE
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:84 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
mcmillanmajora/datasets
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
🤗 Fast, efficient, open-access datasets and evaluation metrics for Natural Language Processing and more in PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy and Pandas
Contributions:26 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 3 months
pythonopen-accessbertlanguage-processingsentiment-analysis
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