Jessica Wu
Senior Software Engineer at X, The Moonshot Factory
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Wu is a Senior Software Engineer and machine learning specialist with nine years of experience building scalable data-driven systems across academia and industry, currently at X, The Moonshot Factory in Boston. She blends deep research pedigree—a PhD from MIT and NSF-funded work—with hands-on engineering at Verily, delivering production-ready pipelines and models that informed public health decisions for over 65 million people. Her expertise spans ML, data engineering, and statistical analysis, with a research focus on dimensionality reduction using HSIC techniques that informs practical solutions for high-dimensional data. A proven mentor and program director, she has guided dozens of students and postdocs and translated interdisciplinary research into deployable tools with thousands of downloads. Notably, she moves fluidly between cutting-edge research and product impact, reducing workflow complexity and consumable costs while unlocking new market opportunities.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S.E.E, Electrical Engineering, B.S.E.E, Electrical Engineering at Rice University
Github Skills (6)
reduction1
ism1
dimensionality-reduction1
factorization1
dimension-reduction1
decomposition1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
endsley/machine_learning_libs
Jul 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
endsley/sklearn_example
Mar 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:1 release, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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