
Hi, I'm Kezia (ˈkɛzi.ə, or in Spanish)! I currently do AI engineering and image generation and evaluation research at Duolingo. I graduated from Stanford University, majoring in Linguistics and doing research as a part of the Stanford NLP group, focusing on low-resource language modeling using LLMs. I love research, education, language, and computation. My passion is equal-access education for everyone, regardless of background, socio-economic level, or nationality. My experience includes computer science pedagogy research for the State of Texas Curriculum, volunteering at and organizing all-girls code camps and hackathons, and serving as a mentor for underrepresented minorities in tech. I love studying languages. My first language is Spanish, I studied Korean and German in high school, Mandarin Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese at Stanford, and am currently studying French and Italian. I am a huge syntax, phonology, and typology nerd. In my free time, I've performed salsa and bachata, DJd at large events, and fallen off the rock-climbing wall more times I can count. My dream is to be a professor in CS or Linguistics (preferably both), by the age of 60, and while I'm on that journey, I want to explore as many opportunities as I can.
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New York, New York, United States
Software Engineer
Duolingo
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• Full-time
Sep 2023 - Present
New York, New York, United States
Student
Stanford University
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Sep 2019 - Jun 2023
Student Researcher
Stanford University Department of Computer Science
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Jan 2022 - May 2023
Student
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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• Full-time
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Software Engineer Intern
Duolingo
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• Full-time
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
New York, New York, United States
Thrive Software Engineer Intern
Duolingo
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• Internship
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
NLP Research Assistant
Stanford CoCo Lab and NLP Group
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Stanford, California, United States