# Mara Schwartz

> Software Engineer @ NAI with 2 years research experience in NLP | M.S. Computer Science @ RPI | B.S. Computer Science & Cognitive Science @ RPI

Location: Patchogue, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maraschwartz

Software Engineer at North Atlantic Industries

Computer Science Master's Graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. My research is currently in the field of Natural Language Processing.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ North Atlantic Industries
Jan 2025 – Present | Bohemia, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ North Atlantic Industries
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Bohemia, New York, United States
• Project lead for the PinMapper project, reducing pin-out creation time from over 4 hours to under 1 minute
• Develop automated thermal testing tools for COTS motherboards, uncovering critical heat management deficiencies in pre-production
• Manage one Junior SWE and six interns, providing technical mentorship and project leadership
• Implement a two-week sprint and Jira workflow for a 10-member team, enhancing communication and planning
• Design and present product demos earning company recognition for  technical expertise and customer engagement

### Graduate Research Assistant @ LACAI Lab
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Troy, New York, United States
• Researcher on GATOR, an IBM-funded research project to prototype a new task-oriented human-machine dialogue system using transformers
• Led real-user evaluation and performed data analysis to compare with previous self-play evaluation using the “Persuasion for Good” corpus
• Co-authored and published our results in the AHFE International 2023 conference proceedings

### Teaching Assistant @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Troy, New York, United States
• Teaching Assistant for Programming Languages (Fall 2021) and Data Structures (Spring 2022)
• Mentored students, created and graded programming assignments, graded tests, and held office hours and labs

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ LACAI Lab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Troy, New York, United States
• Developed a tool for annotating belief extractions in text for use in ongoing projects within the research lab
• Lead developer for the Socio-Cultural Content in Language (SCIL) toolset, an NLP toolset for identifying social roles within dialogues

### Mentor @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Mentor for Operating Systems

### Tutor @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tutor students in Computer Science 1 and Data Structures

### Data Engineer @ Atelier4
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Long Island City, New York

### Data Engineer @ Atelier4
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Long Island City, New York


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

### Nanzan University

### Yorktown High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mara-e-schwartz
- Portfolio: https://maraschwartz.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13