Leah Nicolich-henkin
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Lovelace
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolLeah Nicolich-henkin is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML systems across computer vision, natural language processing, and data engineering. She has led end-to-end CV and data platform work at Numina and advanced on-device NLU and privacy-preserving model training at Amazon, combining applied research with pragmatic engineering. At Lovelace she continues to drive ML development and team leadership, translating experimental design and statistical analysis into reliable pipelines and models. Her background in linguistics and language technology (Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth) gives her a rare depth in both speech/NLP and multimodal systems. Leah is comfortable across the stack—from data collection and annotation to model compression and deployment—and often focuses on edge and privacy-aware solutions. Colleagues describe her as a hands-on leader who bridges research rigor with production-driven delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics at Dartmouth CollegeMaster's Degree, Language Technology, Master's Degree, Language Technology at Carnegie Mellon UniversityStuyvesant High SchoolProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gtomar/LatestBazaar
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:59 commits, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
leahrnh/reddit_corpus
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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