Shreya Havaldar
PhD Candidate
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShreya Havaldar is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania (expected Spring 2026) with 11 years of industry and research experience spanning NLP, conversational dynamics, and AI-driven social understanding. She has applied her research at top labs and companies including Google DeepMind and Spotify, and brings practical engineering chops from multiple Microsoft internships and a Boeing prototyping role. Her work combines academic rigor with product-oriented implementation—examples include topic clustering and tenant-level feature engineering for MSAI and implied language understanding for LLMs. A former USC undergraduate researcher and teaching assistant, she also led AI student organizations and large-scale hackathon logistics, demonstrating a consistent focus on community-building and mentorship. Based in Los Angeles, she blends deep technical expertise in language technologies with experience shipping systems that bridge research and real-world product constraints.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaTroy High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
French, English, Marathi
Github Skills (14)
crowd4
deep-learning3
foreach3
machine-learning3
abstract-syntax-tree3
parser2
ocaml2
lexer2
opam1
pair-programming1
benchmark1
javascript1
benchmarking1
lodash1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alpha-convert/academic-site
Feb 2020 - Mar 2025
A beautiful Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:83 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
academicsbeautiful-jekylljekylljekyll-themebeautiful-jekyll-theme
jdublu10/jdublu10.github.io
Sep 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:13 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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