Joseph Cutler
PhD Candidate
Summary
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SeniorShreya 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
Github Skills (18)
ocaml8
modular7
mojo7
programming-language6
ai5
crowd5
machine-learning5
foreach3
parser2
lexer2
max2
deep-learning2
rails1
benchmarking1
pair-programming1
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alpha-convert/academic-site
Feb 2020 - Dec 2025
A beautiful Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:98 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
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alpha-convert/oxcaml
Jul 2025 - Jan 2026
OCaml - Oxidized!
Contributions:4 reviews, 9 PRs, 214 pushes in 6 months
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