Aparna Komarla
Palo Alto, California
Aparna Komarla is a data scientist and applied researcher interested in building human-centered AI systems for high-stakes decisions and studying how they perform in the real world.
linkedin.com/in/apkomarla/
github.com/akomarla
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aparna.komarla@gmail.com · aparna.komarla@duke.edu
Things I'm working on
Founder — Redo.io
Funded by Urban Institute, Microsoft, and LexLab. Using AI to help people in prison get a second chance under California's resentencing laws.
Responsible AI Fellow — Duke University School of Law
Studying how well LLMs perform as an interpretive bridge for attorneys working with statistical evidence.
Data Scientist — Intel Foundry
Building time-series forecasting models to help semiconductor leaders navigate a volatile global market.
Things I've worked on
Founder — Covid In Custody Project
Built the only public COVID-19 dataset for California jails, exposing outbreaks, deaths, and government failures through hundreds of public records requests. Featured in the UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project, the San Francisco Chronicle, and CalMatters, among others.
Data Scientist — Solidigm (SK Hynix / Intel NSG)
Built time-series models to anticipate SSD failures in data centers, preventing catastrophic data loss for customers.
Research Data Analyst — UC Berkeley & Stanford Computational Culture Lab
Built NLP models to study language use in decision-making settings and measure cultural and social dynamics related to authority and diversity.
Education
Stanford University
M.S. Symbolic Systems
University of California, Davis
B.S. Applied Mathematics