Xanda Schofield
Associate Professor
Claremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXanda Schofield is an Associate Professor and computational text analysis researcher with 11 years of experience bridging machine learning, NLP, the humanities, and privacy-focused social science. Based at Harvey Mudd College after a PhD at Cornell, they combine rigorous research with a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching and mentorship. Their work spans applied and theoretical ML for text, informed by industry research internships at Microsoft and practical engineering experience at Yelp. Xanda’s career reflects a blend of academic leadership and hands-on systems experience, and they often situate technical innovations within broader societal and ethical contexts.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science - Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science - Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning at Cornell Universitya Joint B.S Computer Science and Mathematics, a Joint B.S Computer Science and Mathematics at Harvey Mudd CollegeForest Ridge
English, French
Github Skills (31)
clustering7
topic-modeling6
information-extraction6
latent-semantic-analysis6
java6
natural-language-processing5
phonetics5
document-classification5
machine-learning5
latent-dirichlet-allocation4
operation4
acl4
data-management4
topic-models4
nlp4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DiscoverNLP/Assignments
Mar 2022 - Jan 2024
Markdown files containing assignment writeups
Contributions:1 review, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
operationdata-managementmarkdownwriteups
xandaschofield/private_bptf
Jul 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:19 pushes in 9 months
tensor-factorizationfactorizationpoissontensorbayesian
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