I had a crucial realization two years into my ECE degree: one of the biggest barriers for those in my degree wasn't technical know-how or problem solving skills, but a difficulty communicating. I had attended years of classes with brilliant professors where I would be forced to turn to the textbook when they struggled to explain basic concepts, and taken part in countless labs and projects where we'd waste crucial time debating in circles how to structure our code.I joined the Cornell Daily Sun as an opinion columnist to flex my writing skills, and in my classes and project team work began to prioritize my ability to clearly and concisely explain myself, my questions, and my plans. I saw immediate success, rising to leadership roles in my project team, Engineering World Health, and my TA positions, as well as leading efficient and peaceful team projects in my courses despite the inevitable frustration in an engineering degree.These skills, as well as my technical depth in all aspects of computing, have become my greatest strengths as a product manager at the fast-paced autonomous driving startup, Aurora. In my years there, I've launched multiple 0 to 1 projects to revolutionize our testing and motion planning systems, and risen to a subject matter expert often consulted in our testing systems and processes. I've written hundreds of pages of concise and clear PRDs, roadmaps, and UAT criteria, many of which exist as the current source of truth for our processes as a fast-paced company.
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Associate Product ManagerAuroraUnited States -
Product ManagerThrivable Jun 2024 - PresentCleveland, Ohio, Us -
Product Manager IiAurora Jun 2021 - Jun 2024Mountain View, California, Us• Led 0 to 1 launch, UAT, and Agile development for Scout, a web-based application that serves as the visual interface for perception and motion planning of the autonomous vehicle for 80 staff members across the US. The Scout app is critical for safe development testing, real-time feedback for improving autonomy, and demos to investors and government officials including Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.• Directed creation and iteration of metrics dashboard, user documentation, and SUS surveys for Scout that tracked a 26pt improvement (54 to 80) within 5 months of launch to better tailor user experience and create a robust listening system.• Principal author of PRDs for proposing new workflows to filter down millions of miles of on-road test data to what is most salient for trained employees to review or label. Implemented new UI, data services, and automation solutions for iterating on the artificial intelligence system with a cross functional team for >100 daily users. These improvements allowed engineers to be 40% more efficient landing PRs, took 60 users off of spreadsheets and onto internal tooling that better tracks historical data, and unblocks the company-wide safety case.• Devised vision and directed labeling tooling creation for several major initiatives to create and curate data sets of over 50,000 simulation tests for training machine learning algorithms for selecting driven path and workflows to validate driving behavior for safe autonomous operation.• Streamlined the data annotation hashtags feature which reduced user-memorized annotations following extensive interviews of users and end consumers of data, the machine learning autonomy engineers, resulting in a 57% reduction to simplify the in-vehicle testing process -
Engineering Learning Initiatives FacilitatorCornell University Jan 2018 - May 2021Ithaca, Ny, UsAcademic Excellence Workshop Facilitator for Multivariable Calculus for Engineers- Lead supplementary workshop for two hours per week for freshman engineering students- Create worksheets, deliver summary lecture of weekly material, facilitate teamwork and group work among students -
Hardware Researcher At Energy And The Environment Research LabCornell University Aug 2019 - Feb 2020Ithaca, Ny, Us- Streamlined circuitry, reduced energy consumption, and increased sensor capabilities of an IoT, solar powered air pollution monitor -
Electrical Project LeadCornell Engineering World Health Jan 2020 - Feb 2021- Leading an 8-month project designing EMG sleeves for detection of muscle signals to inform the UI of prosthetic hands in collaboration with Invictus BCI- Led an 8-person team to completion of a project with a leading non-invasive neurotechnology company to develop novel heart rate variability sensors for its forthcoming projects that ran from Nov. 2019 to May 2020, including navigating shift to online in Mar. 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic to ensure project completed on schedule despite circumstances via virtual meetings- Responsibilities included being the primary point of contact for collaborators: biweekly emails and bimonthly check-in calls, delegating tasks at weekly meetings to assure completion by end of SP 2020 semester, and various weekly meetings for operating project teams at Cornell and collaborating with team lead and other subteam leads -
Electrical Subteam MemberCornell Engineering World Health Jan 2019 - Dec 2019- Developed and improved a hand-held sensor that tracks the strength of a patient’s grip in accordance with drug cravings for opioid addiction research with two other students for National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) -
Integrative Design Subteam MemberCornell Engineering World Health Jan 2018 - Dec 2018- Collaborated on a team with 6 other students to design and build a prototype for a low-cost solar powered heating system for Syrian refugee camps near Beirut, Lebanon -
Systems And Test Engineering Intern @ AtgUber Jun 2020 - Aug 2020San Francisco, California, Us- Developed the framework to quantitatively evaluate the perception capabilities of self-driving vehicles at a systems level, independent of hardware or software implemented, to determine fitness for releasing to the road and understanding improvement over time- Worked with software, systems, and testing teams to understand stakeholder perception requirements and inputs for system level testing- Designed a metric in Python for determining latency in detection of surroundings to be integrated in company-wide metric library- Drafted example test plans on metrics to be later implemented by test teams -
Sensor And Navigation Fusion InternDraper Jun 2019 - Aug 2019Cambridge, Ma, Us•Devised, performed, and processed data for test procedures for an Augmented Reality (AR) system prototype with SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) and scene-change detection capabilities•Recruited test subjects and conducted user testing to inform the future prototype development of an AR application and made recommendations based on data analysis from tests and other research
Michaela B. Education Details
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Cornell UniversityInformation Science/Studies -
Cornell UniversityElectrical And Computer Engineering
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