Mia Garrard
Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer at Facebook
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMia Garrard is a Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area who blends CS, chemistry, and biology to build ML systems at the intersection of AI and medicine. As tech lead at Facebook, she develops an internal ML-backed experimentation framework using causal inference and heterogeneous treatment effect modeling to optimize user experiences, with work presented at KDD, NeurIPS, and CODE@MIT. Her background includes hands-on medical-device software testing and intraoperative spectroscopy research, where she ran the world’s first commercial SRS microscope and helped validate tissue-analysis algorithms. Comfortable bridging research and production, she delivers reproducible, safety-conscious solutions informed by clinical workflows and regulatory contexts. Colleagues count on her to translate complex scientific problems into deployable ML products that improve decision-making in healthcare-adjacent domains.
2 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Chemistry, Bachelor's degree, Chemistry at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
simulation10
gpytorch8
jupyter-notebook7
python6
jupyter6
perception5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
mgarrard/Ax
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Adaptive Experimentation Platform
Contributions:351 pushes, 143 branches in 1 year 7 months
mgarrard/aepsych
Jan 2024 - May 2024
AEPsych is a tool for adaptive experimentation in psychophysics and perception research, built on top of gpytorch and botorch.
Contributions:13 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
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