Michelle Mcsweeney
Staff Learning Architect at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichelle Mcsweeney is a Staff Learning Architect and data scientist with 10+ years of experience specializing in NLP, data storytelling, and building learning products that make complex models accessible. She blends academic rigor—holding a PhD in Computational Linguistics and years teaching LLMs, NLP, and visualization—with product leadership experience launching LLM-powered educational tools and scaling content teams. Michelle has led multilingual NLP deployments, authored two books on language and technology, and designs hands-on labs (LangChain, fine-tuning BERT/LLaMa2) that bridge research and applied engineering. She’s known for fostering individual ownership and collaboration across interdisciplinary teams and for turning engagement data into course and product strategy that measurably improves outcomes. An often-overlooked strength is her background in linguistically informed fieldwork and curriculum design from Peace Corps experience, which informs her attention to culturally aware, practical learning experiences.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Doctoral Programme, Oxford Internet Institute, Summer Doctoral Programme, Oxford Internet Institute at University of OxfordCertificate, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Certificate, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy at The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics (Computational), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics (Computational) at City University of New York Graduate CenterBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry and Mathematics at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (21)
digital-humanities8
scientific-publications8
placement7
gis6
nltk6
corpus6
nlp5
topic-modeling5
javascript4
ruby4
natural-language-processing4
python4
data-cleaning4
creative-commons3
sorting-algorithms3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
michellejm/Data-Resources
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
CenterForSpatialResearch/NYCDHWeek
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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