Christina Last
Machine Learning Researcher at AQAI
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristina Last is a machine learning researcher with eight years of experience bridging academic excellence and entrepreneurial impact, currently at Mila after an MSc at MIT and a US-UK Fulbright. Her work spans graph neural networks, reinforcement learning and MLOps, and she co-founded AQAI where she led a CHI paper and won awards from NASA, OpenAI and others. She has translated research into real-world health and urban systems through roles at CMU, The Alan Turing Institute and MIT’s Senseable City Lab, and advises product-focused ML teams. Comfortable moving between deep research and deployment, she also builds community at scale—previously running workshops for 100k+ engineers—and has a track record of securing competitive fellowships and top-tier selection processes.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Academic Exchange, Academic Exchange at University of CaliforniaMaster of Science - MSc, Master of Science - MSc at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMachine Learning, Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon UniversityA level, A level at Bilborough CollegeGCSE, GCSE at The Fernwood SchoolBachelor of Science - BSc with Hons., Bachelor of Science - BSc with Hons. at University of Bristol
English
Github Skills (22)
digital-humanities10
spatial-data10
visuals10
computer-vision9
machine-vision9
maps9
machine-learning8
pytorch8
image-processing8
pipeline7
open-data7
deep-learning7
scale7
object-detection7
science6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AQ-AI/open-geo-engine
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:192 commits, 32 PRs, 95 pushes in 1 year 4 months
AQ-AI/openaq-engine
Dec 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:9 reviews, 35 PRs, 303 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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