hi, i'm sophia!
I'm a student at MIT passionate about AI and computer vision, but curious about virtually everything. An adventurer at heart, I love learning new languages, exploring new places, and building cool things to make the world a better place, one baby step at a time.

- 📍 Based in Cambridge, MA, USA
- 🫣 Currently building a product for photography
- 💼 Prev @ Microsoft AI, Goldman Sachs, start-ups
- 🎓 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Class of 2026
- ❤️🔥 Hobbies: photography, music (learning electric guitar), cooking, running half maras, making noodle bowls at pottery, hiking in national parks (been to 18/63 US ones!)
Projects
A few things I’ve shipped
LLM Dashboard Agent for Ads Metrics 📊
I built a novel LLM agent that turns raw reliability and latency metrics from Microsoft’s advertising platform into clear, real-time insights — cutting on-call manual work by 22%. I integrated the agent into Grafana's backend API, then led a full migration from PowerBI to Grafana dashboards, giving teams scalable, live data visualizations and transforming how engineers monitor the ads system.
ChefGPT 🧑🍳
A conversational AI tool for home chefs looking to clean out their fridge. Tell it what ingredients and which dietary preferences you have, and it will generate a recipe for you! Compared to OpenAI's GPT-4o, it generates recipes that are 40% more likely to be rated as 'good' by users. Project for MIT's 6.8611 Quantitiative Methods for Natural Language Processing.
Multimodal AI for Wearable Health 🫀
I built a multimodal ensemble model that detects whether cardiovascular wearables are being worn — achieving 99% accuracy. Working with billions of rows of complex accelerometer and ECG data, I optimized large-scale data pipelines, cutting training time by 14 hours (62%). Finally, I engineered and deployed the model into a cloud-backed mobile app, bringing advanced health monitoring directly to patients’ devices.
Workflow Automation for Mortgage Loans 💸
I built backend services, RESTful APIs, and modern UIs for a funding workflow platform used by asset managers. I automated balance sheet generation, compliance checks, and interdepartmental communication with a new electronic task management system. I also developed a collateral valuation solution (using Java, Spring Boot, React, SQL, Python, SingleStore, Flask) that reduced admin burden by 36%, saving both the firm and its clients significant time.
Generative AI for Musical Improvisation 🎶
At the MIT Media Lab, I engineered a generative AI model that emulates Marvin Minsky’s improvisational style using GANs. I developed a digital pipeline for time-series audio data, enabling new instruments to be embedded so musicians can “improvise” alongside Minsky. Leading the signal processing team, I also created a clustering algorithm with 85% accuracy for classifying audio similarity, bridging AI, creativity, and music.
Bias-Aware Clinical Risk Prediction 🪨
As an undergraduate researcher at MIT CSAIL, I built deep learning infrastructure to reduce demographic, social, and ethical bias in ureteral stone clinical risk scores — achieving 89% accuracy. I contributed across the full development cycle, from testing and debugging to API documentation. I also queried and processed 10,000+ rows of raw patient data from the MIMIC-IV database, turning complex medical records into a usable dataset for machine learning.
ML-Powered Drug Recommendation & Clinical Documentation 🧑⚕️
At Aster, a healthcare startup, I built machine learning systems for personalized drug recommendations and used NLP to automate precharting of medical information. I integrated front-end webpages for ambient clinical documentation with back-end ML models, creating a seamless physician workflow.
Multimodal Deep Learning for Kidney Injury Prediction 🩻
Developed a multimodal deep learning model that combines patient record data with ultrasound kidney images to predict acute kidney injury (AKI), achieving 98% accuracy. This work was presented at the International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Applications (London, Sept. 2021), highlighting its potential impact on clinical decision support and early diagnosis.
Contact
Feel free to email me at sophia_s@mit.edu or find me on LinkedIn.