Divya Shanmugam
Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell Tech
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDivya Shanmugam is a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech with nine years of experience at the intersection of algorithms, society, and healthcare, holding a Ph.D., M.Eng., and B.S. in computer science from MIT. Her work focuses on bridging the gap between real-world healthcare data and the assumptions of machine learning systems, developing methods inspired by clinical applications. She has deep research experience from MIT’s Clinical and Applied Machine Learning Group and internships at Microsoft Research, and a background applying information theory and compression to metagenomics. Equally comfortable with systems and applied research, she has contributed to projects spanning visualization, genomics, and protein rendering, often emphasizing practical speed and accuracy improvements. Based in Cambridge, MA, she blends rigorous theoretical training with hands-on engineering to make ML tools more robust for healthcare settings.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, Tamil
Github Skills (37)
jiffy10
icu10
embedding10
database8
python8
databases8
machine-learning7
gpu7
deep-learning7
neural-network5
foundation-models5
numpy5
language-model5
robotics4
multimodal4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
divyashan/sec_scrape
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
mit-caml/mit-caml.github.io
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
our website
Contributions:41 commits, 49 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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