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"You Belong in AI!" is a podcast hosted by UCLA ACM AI Outreach (https://uclaacmai.github.io/outreach/) in which we interview inspiring individuals in the artificial intelligence community about their background and their thoughts on the importance of representation and inclusion in AI. UCLA ACM AI Outreach hopes to encourage youth of all backgrounds to learn more about artificial intelligence and pursue a career in the field.
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You Belong in AI! S4 E1 Pedro Silva
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Welcome to the fourth season of the "You Belong in AI!" podcast presented by UCLA ACM AI Outreach. To start off our season, we will be talking to Pedro Silva (he/him), manager of inclusive AI at Pinterest! Pedro received his PhD from UC Irvine in 2019. In this episode, Pedro shares about his background, his journey to working at Pinterest, and the …
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This episode features Natasha Jaques (she/her), a Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain! Natasha received her PhD in Computer Science at MIT in 2019, and she was a part of various research groups like DeepMind. In this episode, Natasha shares about her background, discusses representation in AI, and gives valuable life advice. Natasha will be j…
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This episode features Kitu Komya (pronouns she/her), a Machine Learning Engineer at O' Reilly Media! Kitu received her Bachelor's degree in Statistics at UCLA in 2018, and she was a part of various research groups like Infosys. In this episode, Kitu touches upon how she got her position at O' Reilly Media, what it's like working there, and her view…
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This episode features Virginia Adams (pronouns she/her), a Deep Learning Applied Scientist at NVIDIA! Much of her work at NVIDIA revolves around Conversational AI, a branch of AI that focuses on speech recognition and generation for interactive language AI's that can speak to users. In this episode, Virginia touches upon how she got her position at…
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You Belong in AI! S2 E3 Dr. Leshell Hatley
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In this episode of UCLA ACM AI's "You Belong in AI!" we will be interviewing Dr. Leshell Hatley. Dr. Hatley (pronouns she/her). Dr. Hatley is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Coppin State University. She is also a Faculty in Residence Fellow at Google and founding executive director of a non-profit organization called Uplift. The "You …
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In this episode of UCLA ACM AI's "You Belong in AI!" we will be interviewing Chinasa Okolo. Chinasa (pronouns she/her) Chinasa is a 3rd year PhD student in computer science at Cornell University. Her work includes developing machine learning models that advances diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases and other AI-enabled health care models.…
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"You Belong in AI!" S2E1- Paco Guzmán
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Welcome to the second season of the "You Belong in AI!" podcast presented by UCLA ACM AI Outreach. In our first episode we will be interviewing Paco Guzman. Paco Guzman(pronouns he/his) is a Research Scientist Manager at Facebook AI, where he focuses on machine translation for low-resource languages. He received his Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems fro…
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"You Belong in AI!" Episode 7 - Jordan Harrod
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In the seventh episode of the "You Belong in AI!" podcast, ACM AI Outreach @ UCLA interviews Jordan Harrod (she/her/hers). Jordan is a PhD student in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology program. She works at the intersection of non-invasive brain-machine interfaces and deep learning …
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"You Belong in AI!" Episode 6 - Santiago Gonzalez
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In the sixth episode of the "You Belong in AI!" podcast, UCLA ACM AI Outreach interviews Santiago Gonzalez (he/him/his). Santiago Gonzalez is a PhD candidate at UT Austin and an AI Researcher in Cognizant's Evolutionary AI team, expecting to graduate in December 2020. Santiago's research lies at the intersection of machine learning and evolutionary…
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"You Belong in AI!" Episode 5 - Chanel Fischetti
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In the fifth episode of the "You Belong in AI!" podcast, UCLA ACM AI Outreach interviews Chanel Fischetti (she/her/hers). Chanel is an ER doctor who is also the Chief Medical Officer of Centaur Labs, a company that focuses on cleaning and labeling medical datasets at scale and on demand to improve medical AI for other hospitals or businesses. For t…
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"You Belong in AI!" Episode 4 - Shweta Khushu
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In the fourth episode of the "You Belong in AI!" podcast, UCLA ACM AI Outreach interviews Shweta Khushu (she/her/hers). Shweta is a Sr. Engineer and Growth Lead of the AI team at SkySpecs, a startup based in Ann Arbor, MI that uses AI and robotics to fully automate drone inspections of wind turbines to help the green energy initiative so that one d…
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"You Belong in AI!" Episode 3 - Jennifer LaPlante
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In the third episode of the "You Belong in AI!" podcast, UCLA ACM AI Outreach interviews Jennifer LaPlante (she/her/hers). Jennifer runs an organization called DeepSense, with a focus of using AI and machine learning to grow businesses in Canada's ocean sector. She is currently completing an MSc in Computing and Data Analytics; her thesis topic is …
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"You Belong in AI!" Episode 2 - Luca Soldaini
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In the second episode of the "You Belong in AI!" podcast, UCLA ACM AI Outreach interviews Luca Soldaini (he/him/his). Luca details his experience as a Computer Science Ph.D. student at Georgetown University, where his dissertation focused on improving access to medical information. He further talks about his current role as an Applied Scientist at …
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"You Belong in AI!" Episode 1 - Carey Nachenberg
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In the first episode of the "You Belong in AI!" podcast, UCLA ACM AI Outreach interviews Carey Nachenberg (he/him/his). Carey details his experience as a Computer Science student at UCLA in the 90's and his past roles at Symantec and Chronicle. He further talks about his current work as a Software Engineer at Lyft Level 5 Autonomy and his interest …
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