Kyra Wilson
Graduate Student
Northfield, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyra Wilson is a second-year PhD student at the University of Washington specializing in responsible AI, with eight years of research and technical experience spanning NLP, human-AI interaction, and neuroimaging methods. She investigates real-world impacts of large language and text-to-image models—such as disparate outcomes in resume screening—and combines computational linguistics with experimental design and high-performance data analysis. Her background in computer science and linguistics (BA, Cum Laude) and hands-on experience operating a 208-channel MEG system reflect an unusual blend of technical, experimental, and interdisciplinary skills. Kyra has a track record of translating complex research into reproducible experiments and publications, and maintains an up-to-date website for her scholarly work.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Linguistics, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Linguistics, Cum Laude at Carleton College
Github Skills (11)
nlp6
natural-language-processing6
natural-language-understanding5
bert5
sentence-similarity5
transformers5
gpt3
sentence-embeddings3
language-model3
transformer-architecture2
testing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kyrawilson/me
Jun 2019 - Dec 2024
:ramen: Minimalist Jekyll Template
Contributions:85 pushes in 5 years 6 months
minimalistjekylljekyll-themeramenjekyll-template
afourtassi/concepts
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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