Janelle Shane
Laser Scientist at Self-employed
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJanelle Shane is a laser scientist with 8+ years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning macroscale free-space optics, nanoscale device engineering, imaging, and lab automation. She combines hands-on design and optical alignment with simulation expertise (COMSOL) and software skills in C++, Matlab, and LabVIEW to optimize and automate experiments—work that once improved a nanolaser’s performance by over 1,000x during her PhD. Comfortable moving between bench and code, she’s familiar with nanofabrication and bioimaging constraints and has built tabletop fluorescence and superresolution systems in collaboration with biologists. Based in Colorado and now self-employed, she consults on ambitious laser projects, gives frequent keynote talks on AI and optics, and runs the popular neural network blog aiweirdness.com, reflecting an unusual blend of technical rigor and public-facing curiosity.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoNiles High SchoolMPhil, Photonics, MPhil, Photonics at University of St. AndrewsB.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at Michigan State University
Github Skills (17)
text-generation9
complexity8
keras8
paper8
python7
nlp7
deep-learning6
tensorflow6
natural-language-processing6
machine-learning6
recurrent5
pytorch5
neural-network4
candy2
data-structures-c1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
janelleshane/novel-first-lines-dataset
Nov 2017 - Nov 2019
Crowdsourced dataset of the first sentences of novels
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 11 months
sentencesdatasetnovelscrowdsourced
janelleshane/DnD-characters
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Crowdsourced dataset of character names from Dungeons & Dragons players
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
playersdungeonsdatasetdragonscrowdsourced
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