Kimberly Wang
Founder at Roots | Where Fun Grows into Forever
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKimberly Wang is an MIT senior double-majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics, a founder and full-stack engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building AI-driven products and research systems. She founded Roots, a voice-based AI edtech mobile app helping diaspora families relearn heritage languages, and has driven production-ready LLM and cloud deployments at Meta and in research at MIT CSAIL. Her research spans audio language models, multimodal robustness, RLHF for empathetic agents, and retrieval-augmented fact-checking systems, reflecting a rare blend of rigorous theory and production engineering. Comfortable across backend, frontend, and deployment (Kotlin, React, PyTorch, HuggingFace, GCP, Kubernetes), she also has a track record of turning research insights into shipped features and community-facing teaching. Notably, she identified critical calibration and evaluation flaws in top audio language models—work that underscores her focus on safety and real-world robustness.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Computer Science, 5.0 / 5.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Computer Science, 5.0 / 5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPingry High School
English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic
Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
testing10
trunk10
axios10
automation10
component-library10
svg10
language-design10
visual-studio10
web-storage10
isolation10
middleware10
nestedscrollview10
flutter-plugin10
pinch10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
upcwangying/upcwangying.github.io
Sep 2018 - Apr 2020
个人博客
Contributions:45 PRs, 75 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 7 months
vue
kimmy-wang/uptime
Jan 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4581 pushes, 2 branches, 431 comments in 2 years 9 months
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