Bio
Ana-Maria Istrate is a Research Scientist at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where she has primarily worked on recommendations, ranking, and text mining algorithms for Meta, a research tool for biomedical researchers. She has graduated from Stanford with a Bachelors’s Degree in Applied Math and a Masters Degree in Computer Science, the Artificial Intelligence track. She is passionate about using machine learning to unlock hidden knowledge from seemingly random/messy data. Her interests lie at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Text Mining techniques and applications that serve the broader scientific community.