Cody Wild

Cody Wild is a Research Software Engineer at Google, previously Research Engineer at CHAI. She holds a B.S. in Statistical Economics from Tulane University, and a M.S. in Analytics from the University of San Francisco. In the years after finishing her Masters program, Cody worked as an industry Data Scientist, first at LendUp, and then on an applied R&D team for Sophos Labs working on developing deep learning models to detect viruses and other malicious file types. Outside of formal employment, she’s worked to deepen her knowledge in Machine Learning by reading and synthesizing technical content from the field, which can be found online in both long and short form. She is passionate about precise understanding, clear arguments, and clean code, and is glad to be helping support a research team that’s thinking critically about the ways their work and AI writ large could negatively impact the world.