Caitlyn Clabaugh
Experience Engineer StudioLAB at The Walt Disney Studios
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolCaitlyn Clabaugh is a Senior Research Scientist with 14 years of experience translating AI/ML research into production-ready human-centric systems, holding a PhD from USC. She has led cross-functional teams to deliver embodied social robotics (Moxie) and brought generative AI into studio pipelines at Disney to cut VFX exploration turnarounds from weeks to days. Her technical breadth spans reinforcement learning, multimodal perception, full-stack robotics engineering (C#, C++, Python, firmware), and designing adaptive long-term interactions validated in real-world, month-long deployments. Known for aligning creative and technical stakeholders, she builds tooling and processes that double team velocity and scale data-driven iteration. Based in Los Angeles, she focuses on empowering people through practical, personalized AI—combining rigorous academic foundations with production engineering at the intersection of robotics and creative media.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Bryn Mawr CollegeMercy High School Burlingame
French, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
gunicorn6
nginx6
web-application6
flask6
react6
github3
unity3d3
git2
javascript1
webots1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
firebaugh/Digitowls
Nov 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 3 months
firebaugh/caitlynclabaugh
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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