Sheryl Chen

Sheryl Chen

B.S. Computer Science & History Minor
Stanford University

Hello! I'm junior at Stanford University studying AI and History. I'm passionate about building innovative solutions and machine learning. I love podcasts, being active, Trader Joe's, and a good (WiFi-included) coffee shop.

I am also passionate about history and politics, and strive to contribute to a culture of critical inquiry and free expression. As a 2025-26 ICDP Fellow, I'm dedicated to advancing democratic values through a nationwide college-student discourse.

Email: sherylch [at] stanford [dot] edu

Portfolio

Work Experience

Software Developer

Rézme

November 2024 - February 2025

Enterprise product for managing background check processes and hiring — helped ship a fair-change compliance app that won the NBA All-Star Competition.

Project Manager & Software Engineer

Fundusol (Department of Energy backed Agrivoltaics startup)

January 2024 - September 2024

Acquired multiple international clients. Conducted extensive market research and developed a propietary Python financial model. Developed a PV-system simulation UI with caching and concurrent system runs for developer sales calls.

Research & Projects

Machine Learning Researcher

Stanford School of Engineering

January 2025 - Present

Built a Shannon-entropy-based hallucination detector using Bi-LSTM, achieving macro-F1 of 0.68—outperforming other single-pass methods. Submitted to IEEE and NeurIPS.

Machine Learning NLP Hallucination Detection
ArXiv Paper

Hourglass - iOS Productivity App

Hourglass

April 2025 - June 2025

Built Hourglass, an iOS productivity app that gamifies daily time tracking through social accountability and visual progress sharing.

iOS Development SwiftUI Firebase Social Features
GitHub Repository

NLP Researcher

Stanford King Center

January 2024 - June 2024

Assisted on various projects, including using LLMs to identify racial bias in German police reports and using computer vision for data collection. Presented at 2024 Stanford Global Development Research Symposium.

NLP Computer Vision Bias Detection LLMs

Leadership & Other Experience

Researcher Intern

Chapter One (Venture firm backed by Sequoia, KP, a16z, Bessemer, etc.)

June 2025 - Present

Analyzing startup trends and shaping the editorial direction of 'New Internet'.

Software and Events Intern

Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs United

June 2025 - Present

Developer and events intern at SA&EU, a vibrant network of 1,600 members. We have hosted events with major VC firms like the AI Fund and Tau Ventures. I have also helped organize and attract/assess startups for our bi-monthly Pitch Events, and also renovated our website.

Project Management Mentor

StreetCode Academy

January 2024 - April 2024

Taught class to 20 adult learners on project management methodologies and tools.

Books and Media

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

The Color of Law

by Richard Rothstein

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

by Ross Douthat

The Coddling of the American Mind

by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë