Meredith Zang

Meredith Zang is a skilled NLP Data Scientist currently employed at Illumination Works since August 2023. Previously, Meredith served as an Ontological Engineer at Cycorp, where prompt engineering and logical rule development for the knowledge base contributed to projects in Natural Language Understanding, robotics, and healthcare. As a graduate research assistant at Carnegie Mellon University, Meredith co-authored a computational pragmatics system and analyzed the impact of social support on academic outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Academic background includes a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and dual Bachelor's degrees in Linguistics and Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. Meredith has also held research and software engineering roles that demonstrate a strong foundation in machine learning, data analysis, and practical application of linguistic principles.