👩🏽‍💻 About Me

Welcome! I'm Shreya Shankar, a computer scientist (she/they) living in the Bay Area. I study machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers and how to build better tools for them.

My (in-progress) PhD is in database management systems with a human-centered focus at UC Berkeley, and I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Aditya Parameswaran. Previously, I was the first ML engineer at Viaduct, did research engineering at Google Brain, and software engineering at Facebook.

During my time at Stanford (BS & MS in computer science)—an unnecessarily stressful experience yet a something I look back on very fondly—I helped run a nonprofit called SHE++, an organization that helps to empower underrepresented minorities in technology. I also spent a lot of time as a section leader for CS198 and served as the head TA for CS106B.

Research

I'm working on the following projects:

Data Systems

• A reactive dataflow-based framework to build ML apps
• Assertions for large language model (LLM) chains
• Large-scale data processing (e.g., sorting, rating, labeling) with LLMs
• Discovering conditional functional dependencies and other data quality constraints at scale

Machine Learning

• Mitigating effects of feedback delays on real-time ML performance
• Mining feedback delays to build better ML performance debugging tools

Human-Computer Interaction

• Interview study on best practices in CI / CD for ML (under revision)
• Interfaces for integrating observability into ML pipelines

If you are interested in working on any of these projects or collaborating, please contact me via email. I am open to undergrads who have taken a databases course and/or a graduate level machine learning course. If you go to UC Berkeley, please mention that in your email. I apologize if I am unable to respond to your email in a timely manner.

Contact

To reach me, you can email shreyashankar@berkeley.edu. I am also on Twitter and Github.

My (typically-outdated) CV is available for download here.