Willow Ahrens is a Ph.D. student at MIT studying tensor compilers, advised by Saman Amarasinghe and graduating this year. She is the developer of Finch, a productive datastructure-driven array programming language. Willow received her BS in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from University of California, Berkeley. Willow is a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow, and values scientific applications. Willow is also a glassblower, and teaches first-time glassblowers at the MIT Glass Lab.