Ezinne Nwankwo is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley who applies statistical and machine learning methods to social-good problems, with a focus on integrating expert and community preferences into models for low- and middle-income settings. With roughly a decade of experience spanning research internships and applied roles at IBM, Duke, and policy labs, she has tackled domains from agricultural AI to COVID-19 misinformation and human perceptions of AI. She combines rigorous Bayesian and hypothesis-testing approaches with practical decision-making applications, such as resource allocation and government policy analysis. An experienced instructor and evaluator, she has led assessments and taught statistics labs, and she advocates for underrepresented students as a Black in AI organizer and board member.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Statistics, Master of Science - MS, Statistics at Duke University
Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Harvard University
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Ezinne Nwankwo - Science For Social Good Research Intern at IBM