Cody Coleman is a first generation student, who aims to leverage his passion for computer science to improve education and society as a whole. He is a second-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at Stanford University and a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow. Advised by Matei Zaharia and Peter Bailis, Coleman is a member of the Stanford DAWN project, which aims to democratize artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) by creating systems and tools to improve the efficiency and accessibility of end-to-end ML application development. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.S. and an M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.