Sonia Quispe
Research Engineer at New York University
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSonia Castelo is a research engineer and PhD candidate at NYU Tandon with 11 years of experience building visual-interactive systems that bridge human expertise and machine learning. At NYU’s VIDA lab she designs and implements visual analytics for DARPA and large-scale research projects—helping subject-matter experts explore, curate, and compare AutoML models and web collections. Her background spans information visualization, HCI, text and data mining, and production analytics from prior industry work in Brazil and Peru, giving her a rare mix of applied R&D and real-world deployment experience. She has a track record of turning complex data problems into intuitive interfaces that significantly reduce analysis and labeling time and has published in top venues such as VIS, TVCG, VLDB, and SIGMOD. Fluent across interactive visualization, model comparison, and web-scale data exploration, she pairs rigorous research methods with pragmatic engineering to move prototypes toward usable tools.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de San AgustínUniversity of São Paulo
Spanish, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (30)
ddt10
explore10
dataset-search10
search-engine9
crawling9
profiling9
discovery9
data-profiling9
api7
census6
javascript6
user-interface6
seed6
dm5
viewer5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
soniacq/soniayroque
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
VIDA-NYU/domain_discovery_tool
Nov 2016 - Sep 2018
This repository contains the Domain Discovery Tool (DDT) project. DDT is an interactive system that helps users explore and better understand a domain (or topic) as it is represented on the Web.
Contributions:616 commits, 6 PRs, 181 pushes in 1 year 9 months
interactive-systemdomain-discoveryexplorediscoverydomain
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