Samantha Lesner
Undergraduate Learning Assistant
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Lesner is a Computer Science student at UC Santa Barbara with eight years of hands-on coding and mentoring experience, currently serving as an Undergraduate Learning Assistant and researcher in UCSB's Search Systems Lab. She blends practical game design and Unity skills with advanced natural language processing and generative AI work to improve information retrieval systems. Comfortable across C, C++, Python, and JavaScript, she also brings front-end experience from an internship where she authored an A-Frame tutorial. Based in Palo Alto, she pairs classroom leadership—running office hours and designing labs—with data-driven research under Professor Tao Yang. Passionate about diversity advocacy, she focuses on inspiring the next generation of computer scientists while translating research prototypes into usable learning tools. An early track record in both education and research hints at a career bridging applied AI systems and developer-facing teaching resources.
8 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, Computer Science, High School Diploma, Computer Science at Gunn High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraProgramming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samanthajsolomon/github-slideshow
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
A robot powered training repository :robot:
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 day
roboticsrosrobottraining
samanthajsolomon/hello-world
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
github practice
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
jsreactjavascript
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