Savannah Thais
Assistant Professor at Community Insight and Impact (CII)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSavannah Thais is an interdisciplinary ML researcher and Assistant Professor with 13 years of experience studying measurement of and with AI and their societal impacts. She directs the Science, Society, and AI lab at Hunter College and founded Community Insight and Impact to translate research into practical evaluation and policy-relevant tools. Her background spans high-energy physics (PhD Yale, research roles at Princeton and Columbia) where she built physics-driven, interpretable ML for real-time and offline reconstruction, giving her a rare blend of rigorous mathematical grounding and applied ML expertise. Based in New York, she combines academic leadership with hands-on research that interrogates AI limits and measurement practices, and she has a track record of communicating complex ideas to broader audiences.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at Yale UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics and Mathematics at University of Chicago
Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (14)
energy10
snl-applications10
high-energy-physics10
physics10
vulnerability8
machine-learning6
foundation5
gnn5
science5
cms4
data-science2
python2
dashboard1
ai1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
savvy379/intro_to_ml
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
a 5 day, 10 hour introduction to machine learning mini-course
Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
machine-learning
savvy379/codashep_ml_2022
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
The ML course material for CODAS-HEP 2022 at Princeton University
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
machine-learning
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