Neha Kennard
Teaching Associate
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNeha Kennard is a teaching-focused computer scientist with 11 years of experience bridging academia and industry, currently a Teaching Associate at UMass Amherst and a PhD candidate in Computer Science. She has taught core courses from object-oriented programming to search engines and AI, and has guest lectured as a visiting instructor at Mount Holyoke College. Her background includes software engineering at Google and research internship experience at Facebook, giving her a practical lens on large-scale systems and applied research. Trained at Stanford (M.S.) and BITS Pilani (B.E.), she blends rigorous theoretical foundations with hands-on teaching and mentoring. An international researcher early in her career, she has roots in NLP work from collaborations in Stuttgart, hinting at a sustained interest in language and intelligent systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (13)
sentiment-analysis10
stanford-nlp10
word-embeddings10
nlp10
named-entity-recognition10
sentiment10
corenlp10
similarity10
turkish10
natural-language-processing10
arabic-nlp10
java10
lda10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
NehaNayak/shiny-octo-lana
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:76 pushes in 2 months
NehaNayak/veceval
Sep 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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