This site is no longer being updated! Starting in Fall 2019, I will be an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College. I am thrilled to be taking my next steps at the Claremont Colleges, though sad to leave the wonderful Cornell community.

About Me

I finished my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell University in 2019. My doctoral work, advised by David Mimno, focused on understanding and improving latent variable models for analysis of real-world datasets by humanist and social science researchers. Recently, I have also been working on integrating privacy into machine-learning-aided data mining in NLP.

Prior to starting my Ph.D. at Cornell University, I received my B.S. from Harvey Mudd College in Math and Computer Science. I also worked for a short time on the search team at Yelp. In the past, I've done research on state inference for oil drills and in improvisational music software. I also really enjoy baking cookies, encouraging women in STEM, and Shakespeare.

Sometimes I also write blog posts about computing, being a grad student, and baking cookies!

Contact

You can contact me at xanda AT cs DOT hmc DOT edu. (If you're like me, you may sometimes have trouble figuring out how to address people in academia. If you're my student, "Prof. Xanda" works. Otherwise, just "Xanda" is fine.)

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