Summary
Maggie Makar is an Assistant Professor and former industry researcher with 11 years of experience bridging academic computer science and applied engineering. She earned her PhD and MS from MIT after a high-achieving undergraduate double major in Mathematics and Economics, and now leads research and teaching at the University of Michigan. Her background includes research internships at Google and Microsoft and a visiting researcher role at Microsoft, demonstrating fluency in both cutting-edge research and real-world systems. Prior roles across hospitals, policy institutes, and labs give her a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on data, health, and policy-informed technology. She also has a decade of engineering management experience reflected in her GitHub bio, indicating she combines technical leadership with scholarly rigor. Colleagues describe her as someone who translates deep technical insights into practical solutions and reproducible research.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Arabic