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Jennifer Slotnick

#I’m Jennifer—glass artist, bioinformatics researcher, and systems thinker.

I work at the intersection of memory, biology, and design—shaping complex ideas into tangible forms, whether through cast glass or clean code.

Curious about my work? Take a look at what I’ve been building below.

Projects

• FDA Cosmetic Advisor Chatbot

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  A chatbot built using a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system that helps users understand FDA regulations for cosmetics. *Focus: document summarization, ChromaDB, LangChain, PDF ingestion*

• Amazon Annual Report Analyzer

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  A Streamlit app that uses LLMs and data visualizations to explore strategic shifts in Amazon’s annual reports over 19 years. *Focus: sentiment analysis, word frequency trends, thematic comparisons, early forecasting ideas*

Blog

• 2025-04-17» Reading Academic Papers As a Mere Mortal
• 2025-04-14» What Running GALES Taught Me About Genome Annotation (and Patience)
• 2025-03-17» Pixar’s Box Office Formula: Do Great Stories Make Great Sequels?
• 2025-03-13» Charting My Path in Bioinformatics