Melanie is head of machine learning at Clover Health. Prior to Clover Health, Melanie was a Research Engineer at Klout on the Monetization team, which means she uses Hive, MapReduce, and Scala. She studied Linguistics and CS at MIT, and later attended graduate school at UPenn, where she studied CS with a focus on machine learning and natural language processing. In previous lives, she has worked with ATR, Toshiba, ETS, Linguistic Data Consortium, and Oracle.