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Fireside Chats with PhDs in Industry

We invite professionals at top companies to join as special guests for a virtual fireside chat. Attendance is free, but by invitation only.

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Upcoming Guests

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Victoria Krakovna

Victoria is a Research Scientist in AI safety at DeepMind and Co-founder of the Future of Life Institute. She got her Ph.D. at Harvard, specializing in statistics and machine learning. She is curious about how to set good incentives for advanced AI systems.

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Viorica Patraucean

Viorica is a Research Scientist at DeepMind and a Ph.D. grad from University of Toulouse. Her main research interests are around artificial vision systems that can achieve performance comparable to biological systems. She also wants to make education (AI and general) accessible for all with her Machine Learning Summer School in Eastern Europe that promotes excellence, diversity, and inclusion.

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Colin Sheppard

Colin is currently Chief Architect at Marain Inc. He did his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at UC Berkeley specializing in the Grid-Integration of Electric Vehicles. He's got a great story about making the jump from academia to the startup universe. He is curious about your top three priorities in finding a company and is eager to answer your questions very candidly.

Previous Guests

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Pramod Mudrakarta

Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta is a Software Engineer at Google. He did his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago specializing in Machine Learning. He is interested in digging deeper into Machine Learning models and understanding what they actually learn. He is curious about the energy costs of AI and how advances in hardware shape the way we think about building AI models. Outside of work, he is an avid tennis player.

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Richard Shin

Richard Shin is currently a Researcher at Microsoft Semantic Machines. He did his PhD at UC Berkeley in Computer Science, specializing initially in computer security, and later in machine learning. Before his PhD, Richard was a software engineer at Google. He is curious about how to get computers to program themselves, and eager to answer your questions very candidly.

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Robin

Robin is a software engineer at an autonomous driving startup. He graduated with a Masters in Computer Science from MIT.

Rules & Etiquette

Attendee Rules

  1. These fireside chats are private invite-only events
  2. This is an off-the-record conversation for the special guest
  3. Sharing this event and password will be grounds for a ban from all future speakers

Etiquette

  1. Join the Zoom 10 minutes before the start of the event
  2. Have your camera ON at all times
  3. Make sure you are muted when someone else is talking
  4. If you have questions for the special guest please chat them to the host and we will call on you