You Belong in AI!

UCLA ACM AI

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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.

02/19/2024

You Belong in AI! S4 E1 Pedro Silva

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 fascinating work he does on inclusive AI. Want to know more about the work Pedro does? Check out the links below: Representation Online Matters: Practical End-to-End Diversification in Search and Recommender Systems Building for Inclusivity: The Technical Blueprint of Pinterest’s Multidimensional Diversification Want to know more about ACM AI Outreach? Check out our website and Instagram: @acm.ai.ucla.

1h 10m
04/18/2023

You Belong in AI! S3 E3 Natasha Jaques

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 joining the University of Washington School of Computer Science as an assistant professor starting in January 2024.

34 min
10/06/2022

You Belong in AI! S3 E2 Kitu Komya

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 views on current representation and fairness issues in AI. \\

1 hr
05/03/2022

You Belong in AI! S3 E1 Virginia Adams

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 NVIDIA, what it's like working there, and her views on current representation and fairness issues in AI.

29 min
04/07/2021

You Belong in AI! S2 E3 Dr. Leshell Hatley

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 Belong in AI!" podcast is made possible by UCLA ACM AI Outreach: Ava Asmani, Kai Tota, Maya Raman, Jason Jewik, Mat Ruíz, Aman Oberoi, and Nisha McNealis. This podcast is edited by Jason Jewik. The music you hear in this episode is: Cheery Monday by Kevin Macleod. Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Want to learn more about ACM AI Outreach @ UCLA? Visit our website and Twitter. Want to learn more about Dr. Hatley? You can find her on twitter @leshell.

41 min
02/22/2021

"You Belong in AI!" S2E2- Chinasa Okolo

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. Much of her work has a profound impact on low resource communities all over the world. The "You Belong in AI!" podcast is made possible by UCLA ACM AI Outreach. All questions are contributed by Arjun Subramonian (Outreach Director 20-21), Maya Raman (Events Director 20-21), Kai Tota (Outreach/Events Officer 20-21), Jason Jewik (Outreach Officer 20-21), Mat Ruíz (Outreach/Events Officer 20-21), Aman Oberoi (Outreach Officer 20-21), Nisha McNealis (Outreach Officer 20-21), and Ava Asmani (Events/Outreach Intern 20-21). The podcast is edited by Kai Tota. The music you hear in this episode is: Cheery Monday by Kevin Macleod. Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Want to learn more about ACM AI Outreach @ UCLA? Visit our website and Twitter. Want to learn more about Chinasa? You can find her on twitter @chinasza.

52 min
01/05/2021

"You Belong in AI!" S2E1- Paco Guzmán

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 from Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico, and has since been working at the forefront of Natural Language Processing and machine translation research. Paco is a big proponent for diversity in the AI community, and recently helped Facebook start their AI co-teaching program. The "You Belong in AI!" podcast is made possible by UCLA ACM AI Outreach. All questions are contributed by Arjun Subramonian (Outreach Director 20-21), Maya Raman (Events Director 20-21), Kai Tota (Outreach/Events Officer 20-21), Jason Jewik (Outreach Officer 20-21), Mat Ruíz (Outreach/Events Officer 20-21), Aman Oberoi (Outreach Officer 20-21), Nisha McNealis (Outreach Officer 20-21), and Ava Asmani (Events/Outreach Intern 20-21). The podcast is edited by Jason Jewik. The music you hear in this episode is: Cheery Monday by Kevin Macleod. Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Want to learn more about ACM AI Outreach @ UCLA? Visit our website and Twitter. Want to learn more about Paco? You can find him on Twitter @guzmanhe and LinkedIn.

1h 9m
08/14/2020

"You Belong in AI!" Episode 7 - Jordan Harrod

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 for clinical pain and anesthesia under Dr. Ed Boyden and Dr. Emery Brown. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University in 2018. Her YouTube channel focuses on engaging the public on artificial intelligence. You can follow her on Twitter @JordanBHarrod. Listen to learn about Jordan's background and experiences in research, AI literacy and education, her Youtube channel, AI fairness and ethics, and her messages of encouragement to underrepresented students passionate about STEM! The "You Belong in AI!" podcast is made possible by ACM AI Outreach @ UCLA. All questions are contributed by Arjun Subramonian (Outreach Director 20-21), Maya Raman (Events Director 20-21), Kai Tota (Outreach/Events Officer 20-21), Jason Jewik (Outreach Officer 20-21), Mat Ruíz (Outreach/Events Officer 20-21), Aman Oberoi (Outreach Officer 20-21), and Nisha McNealis (Outreach Officer 20-21). The podcast is edited by Jason Jewik. The music you hear in this episode is: Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Want to learn more about ACM AI Outreach @ UCLA? Visit our website and Twitter. Want to learn more about Jordan? Make your way to her website, YouTube channel, and Twitter.

58 min

"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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UCLA ACM AI
Years Active

2020 - 2024
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14
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