Jennifer F. Waldern

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Role
Senior Data Scientist - Semantic Search and Agents at Microsoft
Location
Seattle, WA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Jennifer F. Waldern

Data Scientist]: Jennifer has 10+ years of experience leading projects and solving problems via data, experimentation, computational and and statistical approaches. She combines this with creative hypotheses that consider user behaviour and cognitive psychology, and employs vision and a passion for spotting opportunities across divergent contexts. She is comfortable with and thrives in highly ambiguous, cross-domain problem spaces. Her ideas have a track record of garnering sponsorship, resources, and increasing key revenue-generating metrics.[President and Co-Founder]:She has 6+ years of experience leading people, creating and steering non-profit organizations focused on inclusivity, equity and diversity in technology. A passion for treating others with care, empathy, and resolving systemic biases and inefficiencies runs through her style of operation.[Researcher]: Jennifer seeks to expand epistemic boundaries and has crafted 3x collaborations with high-performing research teams at Microsoft Research and the Paul Allen Brain Institute, focusing her research on the intersection of AI design accessibility, AI impact and consciousness studies.

Experience

  1. Senior Data Scientist - Semantic Search and Agents

    Microsoft

    Aug 2025 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

    Areas of Responsibility: Data Science and Research related to Semantic Search and Agents for the Windows Data Organization.

Education

  • University of Victoria

    B. Sc., Mathematics

    2008 — 2010

  • University of Washington

    Certificate (MiniMasters), Machine Learning / Deep Learning

  • University of Washington

    Computational Neuroscience

  • BrainStation

    Data Science

    2018

  • The University of British Columbia

    Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Major in Computer Science

    2010 — 2013

Skills

  • Sql Script
  • Jira
  • Dashboard Design
  • Xml
  • Google Web App Engine
  • Sap Businessobjects Enterprise
  • Tomcat
  • Business Intelligence
  • Html5
  • Enterprise Software
  • Web Development
  • Java
  • Dashboard
  • C
  • Mysql
  • Jdbc
  • Google Web Toolkit
  • Oracle 11g
  • Javascript
  • Apache
  • Crystal Reports
  • Project Management (Pmi)
  • Sql Server 2008
  • Perforce
  • Json
  • Css
  • Udp
  • Sql
  • Sap Hana
  • Design Thinking
  • Microsoft Sql Server
  • Tcp/Ip
  • Software Development
  • Python
  • Leadership
  • Odbc
  • Graphic Design
  • Etl (Sap Data Services)
  • Computer Vision
  • Rational Team Concert

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