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Show Notes (01:46) Jennifer shared her formative experiences growing up in France and wanting to be a physicist. (03:04) Jennifer unpacked the evolution of her academic journey in France — getting Physics degrees at Louis Pasteur University , Paris-Sud University , and Sorbonne University . (06:44) Jennifer mentioned her time as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Neutrino Physics at Duke University , wh...

Show Notes (01:48) Sarah talked about the formative experiences of her upbringing: growing up interested in the natural sciences and switching focus on terrorism analysis after experiencing the 9/11 tragedy with her own eyes. (04:07) Sarah discussed her experience studying International Security Studies at Stanford and working at the Center for International Security and Cooperation . (07:15) Sara...

Show Notes (01:39) Aparna talked about her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley . (02:50) Aparna shared her undergraduate research experience at the Energy and Sustainable Technologies lab . (04:34) Aparna discussed valuable lessons learned from her industry internships at TubeMogul and compared the objective with that of a research environment. (08:26) A...

Show Notes (02:07) Emeli shared her educational background getting degrees in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in the early 2010s. (04:24) Emeli went over her experience getting a Master’s Degree at Yandex School of Data Analysis . (07:06) Emeli reflected on lessons learned from her first job out of university working as a Software Developer at...

Show Notes (01:59) David recalled his undergraduate experience studying Physics and Mathematics at Duke University back in the early 90s. (05:55) David reflected on his decision to pursue a Ph. D. in Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park , specializing in Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory. (10:18) David unpacked his Nature paper called “ Topology in Chaotic Scattering .” (14:43) Da...

Show Notes (02:06) Fabiana talked about her Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Lisbon in the early 2010s. (04:18) Fabiana shared lessons learned from her first job out of college as a Siebel and BI Developer at Novabase . (05:13) Fabiana discussed unique challenges while working as an IoT Solutions Architect at Vodafone . (09:56) Fabiana mentioned projects she contribu...

Show Notes (02:06) Azin described her childhood growing up in Iran and going to a girls-only high school in Tehran designed specifically for extraordinary talents. (05:08) Azin went over her undergraduate experience studying Computer Science at the University of Tehran . (10:41) Azin shared her academic experience getting a Computer Science MS degree at the University of Toronto , supervised by Ba...

Show Notes (02:09) Gordon briefly talked about his undergraduate studying Psychology and Philosophy at Rutgers University in the early 90s. (03:24) Gordon reflected on the first decade of his career getting into database technologies. (05:34) Gordon discussed his predilection towards consulting, specifically his role in the professional services team at AB Initio Software in the early 2000s. (08:0...

Show Notes (2:05) Louis went over his childhood as a self-taught programmer and his early days in school as a freelance developer. (4:22) Louis described his overall undergraduate experience getting a Bachelor’s degree in IT Systems Engineering from Hasso Plattner Institute , a highly-ranked computer science university in Germany. (6:10) Louis dissected his Bachelor thesis at HPI called “ Differen...

Show Notes (01:58) Dzejla described her undergraduate experience studying Computer Science at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology back in the mid-2000s. (07:59) Dzejla recapped her overall experience getting a Ph. D. in Computer Science at Stony Brook University . (14:38) Dzejla unpacked the key research problem in her Ph. D. thesis titled “ Upper and Lower Bounds on Sorting and Searchin...

Show Notes (1:45) Willem discussed his undergraduate degree in Mechatronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University in the early 2010s. (2:34) Willem recalled his entrepreneurial journey founding and selling a networking startup that provides internet access to private residents on campus. (5:37) Willem worked for two years as a Software Engineer focusing on data systems at Systems Anywhere in Capet...

Show Notes (1:56) Jim went over his education at Trinity College Dublin in the late 90s/early 2000s, where he got early exposure to academic research in distributed systems. (4:26) Jim discussed his research focused on dynamic software architecture , particularly the K-Component model that enables individual components to adapt to a changing environment. (5:37) Jim explained his research on collab...

Show Notes (2:20) Pier shared his college experience at the University of Southampton studying Electronic Engineering. (3:46) For his final undergraduate project , Pier developed a suite of games and used machine learning to analyze brainwaves data that can classify whether a child is affected or not by autism. (11:26) Pier went over his favorite courses and involvement with the AI Society during...

Timestamps (1:55) Alba shared her background growing up interested in studying Physics and pivoting into quantum mechanics. (3:33) Alba went over her Bachelor’s in Fundamental Physics at The University of Barcelona . (4:54) Alba continued her education with an M.S. degree that specialized in Particle Physics and Gravitation. (6:40) Alba started her Ph. D. in Physics in 2015 and discussed her first...

Timestamps (2:07) JY discussed his college time studying Computer Science and Applied Math at Ecole Polytechnique  — a leading French institute in science and technology. (3:04) JY reflected on time at Stanford getting a Master’s in Management Science and Engineering, where he served as a Teaching Assistant for CS 229 ( Machine Learning ) and CS 246 ( Mining Massive Datasets ). (6:14) JY walked ov...

Timestamps (2:55) Chris went over his experience studying Computer Science at the University of Southern California for undergraduate in the late 90s. (5:26) Chris recalled working as a Software Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in his sophomore year at USC. (9:54) Chris continued his education at USC with an M.S. and then a Ph. D. in Computer Science. Under the guidance of Dr. Nenad Medvidović...

Show Notes (2:09) Marcello described his academic experience getting a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Universita di Catania in the early 2000s, where his thesis is called Evolutionary Randomized Graph Embedder . (6:14) Marcello commented on his career phase working as a web developer across various places in Europe. (9:18) Marcello discussed his time working as a software engineer at...

Show Notes (2:10) Dave talked briefly about his Electrical Engineering study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute back in the late 90s. (4:03) Dave commented on his career phase working as a software engineer across various companies in Bozeman, Montana. (7:38) Dave discussed his work as a senior architect and tech lead at Expero , a Houston-based startup that develops custom software exclusively f...

Show Notes (2:13) Jason went over his experience studying Computer Science at Loyola College in Baltimore  for undergraduate, where he got an early exposure to academic research in image registration. (4:31) Jason described his graduate school experience at John Hopkins University , where he completed his Ph. D. on “ Techniques for Vision-Based Human-Computer Interaction ” that proposed the Visual...

Show Notes (2:23) Barr discussed growing up in Israel and serving as a commander of the Data Analytics unit at the  Israeli Air Force . (4:10) Barr reflected on her college experience at Stanford studying Math and Computational Science. (7:24) Barr walked over the two career lessons learned from being a Management Consultant at Bain and Company . (9:51) Barr reflected on her time as VP of Customer...

Show Notes (1:57) Carl recalled his undergraduate experience studying Electrical Engineering at Stanford back in the early 90s. (3:58) Carl recalled his graduate experience pursuing Master’s degrees in Computer Science at NYU and King’s College in the late 90s. For his Master's Thesis, he investigated Support Vector Machines with a Bayesian algorithm programmed in C. (6:45) Carl walked over his Ph...

Show Notes (2:08) Jess discussed her foray into studying Software Engineering at  California Polytechnic State University  during college and revealed her favorite course on Computer Science Ethics taken there. (4:31) Jess unpacked her argument that it is important to shift the engineering mindset away from only asking how  to ask why - referring to his blog post “ Changing The Engineer’s Mindset...

 Show Notes (2:12) Luis shared how he got excited about learning mathematics and specialized in combinatorics. (4:26) Luis discussed his experience studying Math for his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Waterloo   - where he took many courses in combinatorics and engaged in undergraduate research. (5:59) Luis pursued his Ph. D. in Mathematics at the University of Michigan - whe...

Show Notes (2:05) Frank reflected on his undergraduate experience studying Electrical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth . (3:33) Frank commented on his experience working in the game industry after school. (6:28) Frank went over the opportunity to work as a software engineer at Amazon , where he contributed to the personalization system that recommends products to customer...

Show Notes (2:02) Amita described her educational background, studying Electronics at universities back in the 90s. She also professed her love for Asimov ’s writings. (3:33) Amita talked about her reason to pursue a path of an academic professor. (5:13) Amita discussed her Ph. D. titled " Modeling, Design , and Applications of Optical Amplifiers and Long Period Gatings ” at the University of Dehl...