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Traptic, a company co-founded by Lewis Anderson (BS ’13), has developed a strawberry-picking robot, utilizing advances in artificial intelligence to automate the process and potentially reduce food waste.
Boris Babenko (BS ’06, PhD ’12) was first author on a Nature Biomedical Engineering paper “Detection of Signs of Disease in External Photographs of the Eyes via Deep Learning.” He and his colleagues at @GoogleAI used deep learning to detect eye diseases, including diabetic retinopathy.
Ranjita Bhagwan (PhD ’04), a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research India, has been recognized as a 2021 ACM Distinguished Member for the Asia region.
Abterra Bio, which was founded by CSE alum Natalie Castellana (PhD ’12), uses machine learning to find antibodies with therapeutic potential. The company was recently honored by Connect
Roshni Chandrashekhar (MS ’13) narrates this Women Techmakers video on cross-account protection. She explains how developers can set up protection to receive account security and protect connected accounts– in 60 seconds. Catch it here.
Alexander Gamero-Garrido (PhD ’21) was awarded the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University by the National Academy of Sciences.
Popular content creator Mayuko Inoue (BS ’14) was interviewed by CSE Department Chair Sorin Lerner. Did you know “coding is logic?” A class on logic and proofs inspired Inoue to switch to computer science from chemistry. Catch more here.
Carnegie Mellon Assistant Professor Zach Lipton (PhD ’17) was recently featured on the Trends in Machine Learning & Deep Learning podcast.
Jason Oberg (PhD ’14), Tortuga Logic’s co-founder and CTO, was awarded a 2021 Design Automation Conference Under-40 Innovators Award.
Vincent Rabaud (PhD ’09) and his co-authors received the ICCV Helmholtz Prize, known as the Test of Time award, for their 2011 paper on “ORB: An efficient alternative to SIFT or SURF.”
Congratulations to Angelique Taylor (PhD ’21) as she joins Cornell Tech as an assistant professor for the 2022-2023 school year.
Cynthia Bagier Taylor (PhD ’12) has been named chair of the Oberlin College Computer Science Department.
Shelby Thomas (PhD ’20) shared the ups and downs of starting his tech company, Prysm, with CSE students in February.
Volleyball star Molly Wheatley (BS ’85) is one of three Tritons joining the UC San Diego Athletics Hall of Fame. After years as a software engineer and manager at Linkabit/@Qualcomm, Wheatley now manages an elementary school computer lab.
An Zheng (PhD ’22, MS ’17), a Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal recipient in 2022, is now an engineer at Google Research.
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