About

Codruta Girlea is a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer at Lyft with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. Her work is focused on the intersection of dialogue modeling, computational pragmatics, and knowledge representation and reasoning. She is particularly interested in modeling intentionality, beliefs about beliefs, and belief change in dialogues, and her approach combines higher level logical reasoning and probabilities. Codruta believes that the best representation should be flexible, easy to adapt to new domains, as well as allow deep, semantic understanding. With over 5 years of relevant experience, Codruta has a strong background in software engineering, NLP, and research science. She has previously worked as a Software Engineer at Lyft and as an NLP Research Intern at Adobe, where she worked on building grounded scene graphs from image and caption data. Codruta's past interests included qualitative spatial logics and formal methods for software verification. Codruta's education history is impressive, with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, a Master of Science in Informatics from Scoala Normala Superioara Bucharest, and an Engineer's degree in Computer Science from the University of Bucharest. Her tech stack includes software engineering, senior software engineering, NLP, and research science. Overall, Codruta is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a strong background in NLP and research science. She is passionate about modeling intentionality, beliefs about beliefs, and belief change in dialogues, and her approach combines higher level logical reasoning and probabilities. Codruta's education history and tech stack make her a valuable asset to any team, and her past experience at Lyft and Adobe demonstrate her ability to excel in fast-paced, dynamic environments.