Candace Ross
Research Scientist at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCandace Ross is a research scientist at Meta with a decade of experience at the intersection of AI, cognition, and perception, currently building on a deep academic foundation as a fourth-year MIT computer science PhD. Her work spans industry and academia—from postdoc and research roles at Meta and MIT to interdisciplinary internships at ARL, CMU, and Harvard—focused on modeling human memory, social code-switching, and cognitive-inspired AI. A NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, she combines rigorous machine learning with cognitive science and linguistics to tackle problems that bridge neural, behavioral, and computational perspectives. Based in New York, she brings proven experience translating psychophysics and annotated social datasets into predictive models, and is known for blending field-style data collection with principled ML modeling.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at United States Naval AcademyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Howard University
Github Skills (35)
multimodal-deep-learning10
datasets9
word-embeddings9
vision-and-language9
nlp8
natural-language-processing8
wordnet8
classifier8
latent-dirichlet-allocation7
bengali7
lda7
document-classification7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
glove7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
candacelax/bias-in-vision-and-language
Dec 2019 - Feb 2022
Code for paper "Measuring Social Biases in Grounded Vision and Language Embeddings"
Contributions:300 commits, 2 PRs, 148 pushes in 2 years 2 months
multimodal-deep-learningword-embeddingsvisiondeep-learningbiases
candacelax/grounded-vision-parser
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:57 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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