Elise Jing
AI Engineer at Stealth Startup
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElise Jing is an AI engineer with 11 years of experience applying NLP, machine learning, and computational social science to content understanding and recommendation systems. Based in Oakland, she progressed from research and teaching roles during her PhD in Informatics at Indiana University to senior scientist positions at Pandora, where she led ML work for podcast and spoken-word recommendation. Now at a stealth startup, she builds production-ready AI solutions while volunteering with Alameda County Search and Rescue, reflecting a practical, service-oriented mindset. Elise also contributes to education-focused open-source materials, improving Jupyter-based data visualization labs, which underscores her strength in translating complex technical ideas into clear, teachable artifacts.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Informatics Complex systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Informatics Complex systems at Indiana University BloomingtonB.A. B.S Information and Scientific Computation Anthropology, B.A. B.S Information and Scientific Computation Anthropology at Sun Yat-sen University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
data-visualizations10
jupyter-notebook10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yy/dviz-course
Aug 2016 - Jul 2020
Data visualization course material
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:105 commits, 6 PRs, 93 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Elise's commits primarily involve updating and revising lab assignments within the "dviz-course" repository. The updates include modifications to instructions, links, and formatting within the Jupyter notebooks, which are used as course materials. Their contributions focus on improving the clarity and accuracy of the educational content related to data visualization.
course-materialdata-visualizationmatplotlibplotsvisualization
yzjing/yzjing.github.io
Apr 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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