Hadas Kotek
Staff Research Engineer, Responsible AI - AIML Data And Machine Learning Innovation
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolHadas Kotek is a Staff Research Engineer leading Apple's Responsible AI Human Evaluation team with 13 years of experience at the intersection of linguistics and machine learning. She has advanced foundation model safety and Siri NLU through roles that blend hands-on data science, annotation program leadership, and research-driven evaluation design. Trained as a PhD linguist at MIT, she brings deep expertise in language structure and field methods to large-scale annotation pipelines and human-in-the-loop model assessment. Her academic track record includes extensive teaching, grant-funded fieldwork, and high-impact publications, which inform rigorous, reproducible evaluation practices in industry. Based in Cambridge, MA, she is known for translating nuanced linguistic insight into practical safety controls for deployed AI systems.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Linguistics, Bachelor's degree Linguistics at Tel Aviv University
English, Hebrew, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Arabic
Github Skills (5)
mechanical-turk8
prepare7
amazon5
aws4
machine-learning3
Github contributions (3)
hkotek/hkotek.com
Jan 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:436 pushes in 10 years 3 months
hkotek/scripts
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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