Emerging Technology Observatory

Jennifer Melot

Technical Lead Print Bio

Jennifer Melot is the Technical Lead for CSET’s Emerging Technology Observatory initiative. Previously she was a Senior Software Engineer on CSET’s data team working on data pipeline automation and scaling, as well as user interface design and implementation. Before coming to CSET, she worked in the Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems (formerly Human Language Technology) group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, supporting work for government sponsors on pronunciation modeling and feedback, data management and review, and test and evaluation of human language technology systems. She holds an S.B. from MIT, where she double-majored in Computer Science and Linguistics.

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Harnessed Lightning

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Data Visualization

AI Education Catalog

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