Lauren Z
- Research Program Mentor

MS candidate at Stanford University

Expertise

Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Bio

Hi! I'm a recent Stanford Grad and am currently pursuing my MS in Computer Science, with specializations in Artificial Intelligence. I've worked on autonomous vehicles, special projects at Apple, computer vision at Qualcomm, and conducted machine translation research at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. I'm all about building impactful AI, empowering women in tech, wilderness photography, singing and guitar, world travel, entrepreneurship, and fashion. I love working with students and people eager to learn, helping them to happiness and success!

Project ideas

Project ideas are meant to help inspire student thinking about their own project. Students are in the driver seat of their research and are free to use any or none of the ideas shared by their mentors.

Build an Alexa Skill

Build an Alexa powered Ice Cream Shop using the Alexa Developer Console!

Sentiment Analysis on Movie Reviews

Play around with/design different ML architectures to predict sentiment on a large movie review dataset.

Coding skills

Python, Java, C++, Pytorch/Tensorflow

Languages I know

Chinese, Italian

Teaching experience

Taught/Assisted 5 Stanford CS courses over the past two years. Topics include Machine Learning, NLP, Decision Making, and general CS projects.

Credentials

Work experience

Apple (Special Projects Group) (2020 - 2020)

Machine Learning Intern

Ford Greenfield Labs (2019 - 2019)

Machine Learning Intern

University of Edinburgh (2018 - 2018)

AI Researcher

Qualcomm (2017 - 2017)

Software Engineering Intern

Education

Stanford University

BS Bachelor of Science

Artificial Intelligence