Betty Cheng

Betty received her BSc in CS and Math from Simon Fraser University, Canada in 2002. She completed her MSc in Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, focusing her research on G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR). Her work on GPCR classification using text classification techniques won best presentation at the LTI Student Research Symposium and best scientific session at APIII conference. For PhD, she switched focus to computational immunology and proposed her thesis on the optimization of personalized HIV treatments. She has interned at Google working in their Ads Landing Page Quality team. Betty currently has a startup and a patent application based on a social-networking game she and fellow Siebel scholars created. Betty is passionate about diversity issues in education, volunteering many hours in outreach to local jr/middle school teachers and students to promote computer science. She is also part of the Graduate Student Assembly and campus judicial committee board at CMU.