Summary
Raven Rothkopf is a CS PhD student at UC San Diego researching the intersection of programming languages and human-computer interaction, supported by the NSF GRFP and advised by Nadia Polikarpova and Sorin Lerner. They bring four years of research and software experience spanning program synthesis, temporal logic specification, and web-based interactive tools from roles at Barnard, CMU, CISPA, and Amazon SURE. Raven has hands-on engineering experience building accessible web interfaces and a JavaScript library for automatic differentiation on the web, demonstrating strength in both systems and usable tooling. Their work blends formal PL techniques with practical HCI concerns, and they have a track record of turning research prototypes into publishable results and real-world interfaces. Based in San Diego, Raven combines academic rigor with collaborative product-minded engineering across labs and nonprofits.
4 years of coding experience