Karina Halevy
Student Researcher at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarina Halevy is a computational linguist and founder based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building educational programs and shipping NLP-focused engineering projects. As founder and Executive Organization Director of LingHacks, she launched an international 501(c)(3) outreach nonprofit, created 30+ CL curriculum modules, and scaled events that reached students across 17 countries and 17 U.S. states while raising significant monetary and in-kind sponsorship. Her research and industry internships span LLM safety, bias evaluation, model editing, and applied NLP at institutions including Apple, EPFL, Raytheon BBN, and Salesforce, complemented by software engineering experience building scalable backend services. She pairs rigorous academic training (PhD work at Carnegie Mellon; BA from Harvard in CS & History) with performing-arts practice—bringing choreography, production, and stage management experience to community-focused tech education. Notably, her work measures impact (participants were 39% more likely to pursue NLP careers after LingCon/LingHacks) and emphasizes making NLP tools more accessible, safer, and fairer.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science & History (joint), Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science & History (joint) at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Language and Information Technologies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Language and Information Technologies at Carnegie Mellon UniversityLos Altos High School
English, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
giphy-api9
pytorch8
python8
phonetics7
computational-linguistics7
jax7
tensorflow7
numpy7
acl6
machine-learning6
editing5
natural-language-processing4
gpt2
transformer2
knowledge-representation1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ENSCMA2/categorical-modularity
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:54 commits, 26 pushes in 4 months
ENSCMA2/giphy-scraper
Jul 2018 - Aug 2020
The GIPHY Core SDK is a wrapper around the GIPHY API
Contributions:14 commits, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
giphy-api
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