Jessica Finocchiaro
Assistant Professor at Boston College
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Finocchiaro is an Assistant Professor and machine learning researcher with nine years of experience specializing in loss function design to broaden algorithm applicability. She completed a PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and continued as an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard before joining Boston College. Jessica combines rigorous theoretical work with practical teaching experience in data structures and industry exposure to BI and analytics languages like C#, R, and Julia. Based in Newton, MA, she aims to be a lifelong learner who translates research into real-world impact, and her background uniquely blends academic depth with hands-on data and software practice.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Mathematics at Florida Southern CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
English
Github Skills (2)
react6
nextjs4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jfinocchiaro/cvx-fin
Apr 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:728 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
jfinocchiaro/fair-exposure
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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