Joni Mitchell
/ Info
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/ Bio
Hello! I'm a rising second-year student at Northwestern majoring in Computer Science and Comparative Literary Studies.
My research interests span natural language processing, computer vision, and cultural analytics. That is, I want to leverage humanistic theoretical resources to develop computational tools and methods, as well as explore their affordances in the study of cultural objects and cultural production broadly defined.
A few secondary interests: the theory and practice of (free) software engineering—programming language design, compilers, type systems, language-based security, defensive computing. 19th- and 20th-century European literature, Sinophone cinema, aesthetics, global modernism.
/ Work
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Advised by Prof. Tim Tangherlini (Dept. of Scandanavian Studies; Center for Cultural Analytics). Apprehending narrative in the Icelandic saga with literary-theoretical and computational methods.
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2025.05 - Now
Staff Writer @ Responsible AI Student Organization
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On current events in artificial intelligence ethics, tech policy, and computing culture.
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2024.10 - Now
Director of Technology @ WildHacks
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Leading software development at the largest intercollegiate hackathon in the Chicago area.
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2023.06 - 2024.08
Student Researcher @ UCSD Programming Systems Group
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Advised by Prof. Michael Coblenz. Toward ergonomic programming languages and software processes for computational climate scientists.
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2023.01 - 12
Founder, Director @ Hack the Wave
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San Diego County's biggest-ever hackathon run for high schoolers, by high schoolers. Sponsored by Cloudflare, ClickUp, StackBlitz, Ulysses, others.
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2022.08 - 2023.04
Built Albio.js, a compiler-powered reactivity library
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Lightweight JavaScript compiler to enable reactive web programming directly in your markdown.
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2022.07 - 08
Software Engineer Intern @ Hack Club
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Building web tooling and interfaces for JavaScript-based game engine.
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Advised by Prof. Michael Norman. Systems programming to support analysis of dark matter halos in early universe simulations.
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/ Publications
A Theory of Scientific Programming Efficacy
Elizaveta Pertseva, Melinda Chang, Ulia Zaman, Michael Coblenz — 2024 International Conference on Software Engineering