# Max Mines

> Senior Software Engineer at Roblox

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maxmines

I currently work on VR at Roblox, helping to expand and improve the virtual reality support for the platform.

In college I studied cognitive science and computer science. I love learning about the intersections of human cognition and computer science. I like thinking about human language and vision.

In my free time, I write music and play in a band. I’m into woodworking, and recently built a bass guitar from scratch. I also love learning languages.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2021 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States
Working on the Roblox VR experience. One of a handful of engineers who built the Roblox app for Meta Quest. Now working on sound and haptics in the game engine.

### Research Assistant, Language and Thought Lab @ Brown University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Providence, Rhode Island Area
I worked in Prof. Roman Feiman's lab on a joint project between the Brown Language and Thought Lab, and Prof. Ellie Pavlick's NLP lab. We studied how children learn negation terms such as 'not', 'no', and 'nt' with the objective of training deep learning models in a similar manner.

### Software Engineer & Linguistics Intern @ Sana Labs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Stockholm, Sweden
Worked on Sana Voice, a speech pronunciation tool that helps non-Native English speakers learn English. I designed the phoneme-level remediations which help users adjust their articulations to make the target English sound. Scalable design based on IPA's phoneme traits allows for dynamic feedback based on user's native language. Written in Python. 

I added a UI for these remediations on the API's web demo. Written in React. 

I also created a 'Speech Coach' web app for our API in which user repeats after the computer pronunciation of a phrase. App compiles a list of frequent errors, practices them, and provides user with breakdown of their most common speech errors. Written in React.

### Research Assistant @ Penn Engineering
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Philadelphia
- In Python, created HealthLit, a search engine that uses Natural Language Processing to intelligently organize medical literature from clinicaltrials.gov. 
- Used “Semantic Role Labeling” & medical taxonomy SNOMED to solve design challenges.
- Findings later published by Association of Computational Linguistics.

### Research Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Philadelphia Area
- Worked with chair of psychology department, Daniel Swingley, to research how infants learn language.
- Led “language-guided looking experiments” on subjects and designed visual and auditory test queues.
- Used R to visualize and analyze newly-acquired data of 70+ participants across 4 studies.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science and Cognitive Science
Brown University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Germantown Friends School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/max-mines-591556144
- Website: https://maxmin.es

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Last updated: 2026-03-22