Elliot Pickens
Research Assistant at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElliot Pickens is a PhD student in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania with nine years of research and technical experience spanning academia and industry. He has worked on computational social science and AI, including a predoctoral research role at Microsoft Research and research appointments under advisors Duncan Watts and Chris Callison-Burch. Elliot combines teaching experience as Head TA for introductory AI with hands-on internships in data science and finance, reflecting an ability to translate theory into applied projects. His background in operations research (MEng, Cornell) and math/computer science (BA, Carleton) informs a quantitative approach to problems in social and computational systems. Active on GitHub and with a personal research site showcasing his work, he blends rigorous experimentation with reproducible code and interdisciplinary curiosity. A less obvious strength is his repeated role bridging mentoring and technical leadership—leading student programming teams and course staff while contributing to lab and industry research.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Incomplete/Transferred), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Incomplete/Transferred), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaster of Engineering - MEng, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science at Carleton CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer and Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
spring-boot8
java7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
epickens/epickens.github.io
Aug 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:55 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
epickens/Data-Pun-TBD
Apr 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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