Erika Doggett
Associate Lab Director
Simi Valley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErika Doggett is an academic-turned-industry research leader with nine years of applied machine learning and AI experience, now serving as Associate Lab Director at Walt Disney Imagineering. She blends a PhD in Linguistics with deep expertise in computer vision, image generation, NLP, and predictive modeling to solve creative problems across the media and entertainment pipeline. Erika has built and managed AI engineering teams, translating research into tools that streamline content workflows and amplify human creativity. She’s particularly skilled at adapting text analysis for social media language and pairing linguistic insight with generative techniques—an uncommon fusion that informs more robust, production-ready models. Based in Simi Valley, she is passionate about expanding ML adoption in entertainment to increase efficiency and creative possibility.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Linguistics at University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Spanish, French
Github Skills (3)
tokenizer8
reddit7
twitter7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
erikavaris/tokenizer
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Tokenizer for Twitter and Reddit data
Contributions:25 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
reddittwittertokenizer
erikavaris/early_modern_dialogue
May 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
nlpwipearly-modernenglishdialogue-system
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