Summary
Mary W is a Principal AI Technical Specialist at Microsoft with 11 years of experience applying computer vision to overhead imagery (satellite, flyover, drone) and deploying solutions on Azure while working remotely from Pasadena, CA. She progressed through senior data science roles at Microsoft, blending research-grade rigor with production-focused ML engineering. Trained as a Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology from Harvard and a biology BS from Caltech, she brings deep quantitative modeling and experimental design experience to geospatial AI problems. Her background includes crowdsourced genetics research and teaching at Harvard, reflecting a knack for translating complex data and interdisciplinary science into practical systems. Colleagues know her for shipping scalable vision pipelines and for linking biological-style hypothesis testing with robust, cloud-native ML practices.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Molecular and Cellular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University
California Institute of Technology
Spanish, French, English