Jess Newman

Jess Newman is a Senior Software Engineer at YouTube since October 2018, previously serving as a Software Engineer at Google from February 2015 onwards. Jess has a solid foundation in software development, beginning as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from January 2013 to December 2014, contributing to the web application MathSpring, designed for adaptive learning in mathematics. Earlier roles include another Graduate Research Assistant position at the University of Massachusetts, where work involved integrating survey software with Mechanical Turk, and a Teaching Assistant role that earned recognition as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant for the computer science department. Jess's experience also includes a Software Engineering Internship at Google in 2010, enhancing local search algorithms, and an internship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2009, focused on visualization software for geophysical datasets. Educational credentials include a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara.