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Raquel Urtasun is the chief scientist of the Advanced Technologies Group, ATG for short. The ATG is the division of Uber devoted to bringing driverless, autonomous vehicles to the mainstream market.
After studying electrical engineering, Urtasun became drawn to machine learning and started developing algorithms for smaller problems. Watch the video below to hear more about her story. Check out this article for more!
Cierra McDonald sits down with GAL’s Golnaz to discuss her career at Microsoft. Cierra has been within the Xbox organization for 9 years. She has worked in every aspect of gaming from billing, achievements to documentation.
Cierra’s love of gaming started at a young age. Her first introduction to technology was when she purchased a floppy disc of Monkey Island and learned to navigate DOS through the installation process. Watch this episode to learn more about Cierra’s career path, passions and goals.
20-year-old Tishauna Wilson developed her passion for STEM when she was introduced to computers by her family at the age of 5! Throughout high school she repaired computers and even developed a lie detector. By the time she graduated, she became an adept coder.
Wilson is currently a college student at Florida A&M University where she is working on four distinct projects entailing Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing/Understanding, Machine Learning, and Cyber-Security. She’s revived the computer science research program at FAMU and is challenging herself by enrolling in Google’s CodeU 12-week immersive engineering program. Read this article and watch this video for more!