Laura Biester
Assistant Professor at Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Biester is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Middlebury College who blends NLP research with computational social science, focusing on language change related to mental health, perspectivism, and bias. She completed a PhD at the University of Michigan in 2023 after industry stints building database systems at Pinterest and working on Clinical NLP at IBM Research. Laura has a strong teaching portfolio designing and instructing introductory CS courses that broaden participation, and she has mentored high-school NLP projects as well. Her work uniquely combines rigorous empirical methods on social media data with practical engineering experience, enabling research that is both methodologically sound and deployment-aware.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of MichiganBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Carleton CollegeHigh School, High School at Germantown Friends School
French, Chinese
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Github Skills (20)
natural-language-processing9
computational-social-science9
lit9
nlp9
acl7
decks6
machine-learning5
pytorch4
data-science4
inference-engine4
hyperparameters4
python4
adaptation4
multiprocessing3
optimization3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lbiester/Carleton-TimeSaver
Feb 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years
lbiester/lbiester.github.io
Dec 2014 - Dec 2022
Contributions:109 commits, 10 PRs, 88 pushes in 8 years 1 month
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