Kristen Altenburger
Staff Research Scientist at Meta
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolKristen Altenburger is a Staff Research Scientist at Meta (Reality Labs) with a decade of experience applying machine learning and computational social science to product and research problems. With a PhD from Stanford and an MA in Statistics from Harvard, she bridges rigorous academic methods and large-scale industry practice, having contributed to both government labs and private sector teams including Sandia and Netflix. At Meta she leads ML efforts that inform XR research and product decisions, combining causal inference, behavioral modeling, and scalable experimentation. Her background in law-school research fellowships and cyber analytics gives her a distinctive interdisciplinary perspective on privacy, policy, and adversarial risk in deployed systems. Based in Palo Alto, she is known for turning complex social-science questions into actionable, production-ready models that shape user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.) Statistics, Master of Arts (M.A.) Statistics at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Mathematics at Ohio UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Social Sciences (Computational Social Science), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Social Sciences (Computational Social Science) at Stanford University
German, SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kaltenburger/NetworkPredictionICWSM2021
Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:162 commits in 11 months
kaltenburger/kaltenburger.github.io
Sep 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:363 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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