Zaria Jalan
Researcher at MIT Media Lab
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZaria Jalan is a mission-driven researcher and software engineer with a decade of experience building ML-driven systems in C++, Python, Kotlin, and Unity, currently conducting research at MIT Media Lab after senior engineering roles at Google and Jigsaw. She focuses on using technology to make the internet more democratic and to reduce online harms affecting marginalized communities, blending product-scale engineering with applied research. Her background spans industry and academia, including Carnegie Mellon and Stanford training, and internships at Pinterest and EA that reflect early full-stack and backend expertise. Notably, she has navigated both high-scale production environments and research settings, bringing a pragmatic approach to deploying ML solutions that prioritize social impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Carnegie Mellon UniversityStanford University
Github Skills (13)
intellij-idea9
intellij-plugin9
intellij9
java8
google-cloud8
google-cloud-platform7
kotlin7
social-media6
appengine6
cloud-platform6
gcp6
crowdsourcing3
kubernetes2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ZariaHoward/zariahoward.github.io
Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
conversationai/Bridging-Comments-Benchmark-Dataset
Mar 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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