Emily Cao
Cognitive Science Lab Member, UCLA Reasoning at UCLA Psychology Department
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Cao is a cognitive science student specializing in computing at UCLA with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging research, product analytics, and operational optimization. She currently contributes to reasoning and computational vision labs at UCLA while driving mentorship analytics and program innovation for the Transfer Student Center, showing an unusual blend of experimental research and applied product thinking. Her background in project management and systems optimization at a small business complements academic work, enabling her to translate cognitive models and AI perception insights into actionable program improvements. Based in Los Angeles, she brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to lab research and student-centered product design, with a track record of scaling mentorship initiatives and streamlining operations.
9 years of coding experience
University of California, Los Angeles
English, Vietnamese, Spanish, american sign language (asl)
Github Skills (15)
redux9
frontpage9
firebase9
ide9
react8
frontend6
javascript6
typescript5
version-control4
gitbook4
gitignore4
libgit23
blueprint2
css2
git2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
emmyc/moving-on
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
📦 looking backwards, moving forwards // Creative Labs S21
Contributions:6 reviews, 91 commits, 22 PRs in 2 months
s21creative-labs
UCLA-Creative-Labs/merlot
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
frontpage of CL 2019 - current
Contributions:33 commits, 20 PRs, 26 pushes in 6 months
frontpage
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