Sophie Mansoor

Highly organized and accomplished Duke University freshman with a strong passion for CS/AI, statistics, and ethics. Currently leads various initiatives across disciplines, especially in STEM,

Founder

The Empathetic Leaders Movement (2019 - Present)

Developed ELM's mission, curriculums, conducted the planning and organization of events, and helped manage various areas of the organization.
Taught over 100 classes in coding, AI ethics, and entrepreneurship. Impacted around 4000+ students globally.

Data Science Intern (Paid)

Merck Group (2021 - 2022)

Creating a "reverse mentoring" program to support upskilling Merck's HC IT organization on machine learning topics.
Supporting a running natural language processing project for internal and external scientific search.

Application of predictive analytics in R&D operations and quality initiatives.

Logistics Lead

HackDuke (2022 - Present)

Created and organized the entire HackDuke schedule. Managed team shifts and organization needs throughout the event. Managed the event communications by spearheading the Discord server and maintaining the Notion.

Developed the onboarding process for new members.

Outreach Lead and Software Engineer

FTC 5206, Robotics (2019 - 2022)

Elected as Outreach Lead. Facilitated numerous classes, mentorship and volunteer initiatives, and engineering-focused projects.
Assisted with developing the robot's computer vision subsystem using color thresholding and filters.

Won 1st place Inspire Award, 2nd place Innovative Award, and 2nd place Design Award in 2020.

President

Girls Can Code (2019 - 2022)

Leads the Girls Can Code Club at Stanford Online High School. Teaches coding workshops, host speakers, creates teams for the Technovation Challenge, and organizes annual school-wide hackathons (pioneered the school's first-ever hackathon).

Editor-in-Chief

The Chrysalis Literature Journal (2020 - 2022)

Spearheaded, curated, and designed Stanford OHS' REALM award- winning lit journal, The Chrysalis.
Averages over 60-80 contributions each issue.

Computer Science major and Stats minor at Duke University.