Jocelyn Shen
PHD Candidate
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJocelyn Shen is a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group with a decade of experience blending human-centered AI research and software engineering. Her work bridges robotics, machine learning, and interaction design, informed by internships at Apple (HCMI/AI) and Microsoft Research’s EPIC team, plus engineering stints at Citadel and Facebook. She combines rigorous academic output—co-authoring research from earlier UCLA biomathematics work—with practical system-building, including dense object detection and mobile app development. Based in Los Angeles, she brings a rare mix of deep technical fluency and human-focused evaluation methods, often translating lab prototypes into real-world user-centered experiments.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Harvard-Westlake SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Phillips Academy
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
data-science9
pandas9
manipulation9
python9
data-analysis9
frame9
data-structures9
phonetics8
computational-linguistics8
dataframes8
acl8
data-manipulation8
natural-language-processing5
facebook5
feed5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
footprnt/footprnt
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
System.out.footprnt("Footprnt is the next generation travel app!");
Contributions:261 commits, 124 PRs, 246 pushes in 1 month
next-generationtraveltravel-app
deep-learning-mit/staging
Oct 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:91 PRs, 128 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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