Felicia is a Research Scientist in AI with eight years of experience focused on NLP and AI research, based in the Netherlands. She combines academic curiosity with practical engineering, contributing front-end improvements to educational open-source projects like Hedy to make programming more accessible to children. Her work spans user-facing UI fixes and feature enhancements, showing attention to usability details often overlooked by researchers. Comfortable bridging research and product, she brings both experimental rigor and hands-on implementation to AI-driven tools. Colleagues can expect a researcher who values clear interfaces as much as model performance.
Hedy is a gradual programming language to teach children programming. Gradual languages use different language levels, where each level adds new concepts and syntactic complexity. At the end of the Hedy level sequence, kids master a subset of syntactically valid Python.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:7 reviews, 54 commits, 41 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Felicia primarily contributed to the user interface of the Hedy programming language teaching tool. They focused on UI improvements, including adding features like a command list button, and modifying the variable view. Bug fixes related to the user interface, like the disappearing green bar and scrollbar issues, were also part of their work. Moreover, they changed the Hedy lightbulb to a Hedylightbulb.
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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