Sara Mc Carthy
Research Software Engineer at Google
United States
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Top SchoolSara Mc Carthy is a Research Software Engineer at Google with eight years of experience bridging rigorous AI research and real-world deployment. Her PhD work and publications at AAAI, IJCAI and AAMAS focus on game theory, decision theory, optimization and learning to solve large-scale planning and security problems under uncertainty. She has translated academic methods into operational tools for partners like Panthera, WWF and the TSA, tackling resource deployment, adaptive strategies and complex scheduling in conservation and airport screening. Combining a physics background from McGill with deep CS research from USC, she excels at making scalable, deployable algorithms that retain theoretical rigor. An underappreciated strength is her track record of moving solutions from conference papers into NGO and government practice, demonstrating both technical depth and policy-minded impact.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's Degree, Honours Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Honours Physics at McGill University
English, French, Italian, SpanishGithub contributions (5)
saramccarthy/saramccarthy.github.io
Feb 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:180 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
saramccarthy/DP_federatedlearning
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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