# Maria Rufova

> SWE Intern @ Microsoft | EECS @ UC Berkeley

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mariarufova

Hi! I'm a rising senior at UC Berkeley majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I'm most interested in human-computer interaction, natural language processing, and computer architecture. 

I'm always excited to learn more and help educate others. Currently working with children in the Gopnik Cognitive Lab and seeking more mentoring opportunities. Feel free to reach out!

## Work Experience
### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Gopnik Cognitive Development and Learning Lab
Jan 2023 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States
Currently studying how children learn causal relationships and how their tactics can be used to train AI. Project is overseen by graduate student Eliza Kosoy. 
http://www.gopniklab.berkeley.edu/

### Computational Game Theory Research - Gamescrafters @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2024 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States
https://gamescrafters.berkeley.edu/

https://nyc.cs.berkeley.edu/uni/

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | United States
M365 Core - Microsoft Search, Assistant and Intelligence (MSAI)
Copilot Developer Agility and Infrastructure team (DAI)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Redmond, Washington, United States
M365 Core - Microsoft Search, Assistant and Intelligence (MSAI)
Personal Knowledge Graph

### IN FOCUS Program @ Jane Street
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
Software Engineering Track

### SWE Career Prep Fellow @ Uber
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
• 7-month program preparing students to become Software Engineers through workshops focused on technical interviewing techniques, communication and self-marketing skills, data structures and algorithms practice, and other engineering insights
• 1X1 Mentorship and technical mock interviews from Uber staff

### Teaching Assistant @ Girls Who Code
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
As a member of a 5-person teaching team, instructed 60 students in HTML and p5.js programming languages, tested and graded assignments, hosted office hours

### Lead Programmer @ VEX Robotics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Fremont, California, United States
• Lead the programming of autonomous and driver-controlled movements of a game-competition robot using VEXCode language
• Research and plan game strategy for VEX Robotics V5 challenges
• Recruit and train new members of the programming department
• VEX World Championship 2021 qualifiers

### Reinforcement Learning Research Intern @ Stanford University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Implemented reinforcement learning algorithms to train an artificial Tic Tac Toe opponent to use Q-Learning values to predict a game's outcome through iterative training. The machine ultimately achieved victory 75% of the time.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Computer Science
Ohlone College

### High School Diploma
American High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mariarufova

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Last updated: 2026-04-05