Summary
Neha Kennard is a teaching-focused computer scientist with 11 years of experience bridging academia and industry, currently a Teaching Associate at UMass Amherst and a PhD candidate in Computer Science. She has taught core courses from object-oriented programming to search engines and AI, and has guest lectured as a visiting instructor at Mount Holyoke College. Her background includes software engineering at Google and research internship experience at Facebook, giving her a practical lens on large-scale systems and applied research. Trained at Stanford (M.S.) and BITS Pilani (B.E.), she blends rigorous theoretical foundations with hands-on teaching and mentoring. An international researcher early in her career, she has roots in NLP work from collaborations in Stuttgart, hinting at a sustained interest in language and intelligent systems.
11 years of coding experience