Sawyer Quallen

Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

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Experience

  • Applied AI Controls and Transformation Intern at GE Vernova
    Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    Partnering with controls engineering teams to identify system pain points and design AI-driven solutions to streamline workflows and improve operational efficiency

  • Data Analyst Intern at Massachusetts Probation Service
    Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 · 3 mos

    Impacted outcomes for thousands of under-resourced individuals annually by optimizing data infrastructure for health insurance referrals and court-linked social services Built automated Excel workflows to process 1,600+ referrals, cutting handling time from 60s to 10s per case, standardizing formats, resolving null values, and reducing errors Reduced manual transcription time for social workers by 66% by developing a Python based handwriting recognition solution to digitize referral documentation

  • Undergraduate Researcher at MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES)
    Jan 2025 - May 2025 · 5 mos

    Developed a web scraper to extract and analyze data from major scholarly databases, visualizing the impact of 3,000+ physician-scientists for multiple national ASCI conferences Drove a 3x improvement in query efficiency and storage capacity through a full-scale restructuring of the relational database, developing scalable data infrastructure housing millions of data points Created a program generating 60+ live, interactive Tableau visualizations, enabling dynamic cohort-level comparisons and analyses of trends over time

  • Founder at SeeSolarEclipse
    Aug 2023 - May 2024 · 10 mos

    Delivering solar eclipse glasses so that families can view the solar eclipse safely. Donating glasses to some schools in the path of the eclipse to give those children the opportunity to foster their own interests in astronomy.