Podcasts about senior research engineer

Claire chatted to Josie Gotz from the Manufacturing Technology Centre about robotics for material recovery, reuse and recycling. Josie Gotz is a Senior Research Engineer in the Intelligent Robotics Team at the Manufacturing Technology Centre, she works as the technical lead on a variety of robotics and automation projects from research and development through to integration across a wide variety of manufacturing sectors. She specialises in creating innovative solutions for these industries, combining vision systems and artificial intelligence to build flexible automation systems. Josie has a particular interest in automated disassembly for material recovery, reuse and recycling. Join the Robot Talk community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ClaireAsher

In this episode Daryl J. Gotham, PE, Senior Research Engineer at the Great Lakes Environmental Infrastructure Center interviews Dr. Ishi Keenum of Michigan Technological University (MTU) about the surveillance of pathogens in wastewater. Ishi has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in environmental engineering and a PhD in Civil engineering. She is an Assistant Professor at MTU.

In this episode Daryl J. Gotham, PE, Senior Research Engineer at the Great Lakes Environmental Infrastructure Center interviews Jean Inman, P.E. about the benefits of cleaning and televising wastewater collection systems. Jean is a licensed professional engineer with Spicer Group of Saginaw, Michigan with over 28 years of experience with municipal wastewater collection systems and treatment plants.

In this episode Alex Radke of the Center for Technology and Training at Michigan Technological University interviews Daryl J. Gotham, PE, Senior Research Engineer at the Great Lakes Environmental Infrastructure Center about the benefits of wastewater collection system preventative maintenance. Daryl was previously the Director of the Department of Public Services for a large Michigan Township.

In this episode Daryl J. Gotham, PE, Senior Research Engineer at the Great Lakes Environmental Infrastructure Center interviews Anne Tavalire of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) about the national pretreatment program rules and implementation. Anne is a Regional Pretreatment Program Specialist with EGLE.  

Researchers at the International Energy Research Centre (IERC), based at Tyndall National Institute, are leading research into the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a deeper understanding of the complex factors impacting energy poverty. The project, entitled the Irish Energy Poverty Observatory (IREPO), aims to provide a unique platform that will enable research, development, and policymaking in this area. Energy poverty, where households cannot afford or access sufficient energy services, is influenced by various social, economic, and environmental factors. Existing approaches to understanding energy poverty are limited in their ability to capture all dimensions of the issue, relying heavily on income and expenditure metrics. IREPO aims to overcome these limitations with an innovative, data-driven approach. IREPO, led by Dr Fábio Silva and Dr Pádraig Lyons, is a collaboration between IERC, Professor Aoife Foley from the University of Manchester UK, Professor Patricia Kearney from UCC's School of Public Health and Non-Governmental Organisations who advocate for those experiencing energy poverty, The Wheel and South-East Energy Agency (SEEA). The development of the observatory will leverage from international best practice, and the approach can be used in other jurisdictions to provide similar insights. The project will integrate and synthesise data from an array of sources, including surveys, historical databases, and census data. AI and machine learning algorithms will underpin the development of tools to analyse the diverse dataset and scenarios that a comprehensive view of energy poverty would demand and help identify key factors and trends. The approach will assist policymakers and stakeholders in forming effective strategies and policies to alleviate energy poverty in the context of uncertain geopolitical situations and the urgent need to decarbonise societies throughout the world. Dr Fábio Silva, Senior Research Engineer at the IERC, said: "The development of the Irish Energy Poverty Observatory should provide a unique platform to improve policy actions and support research in this area." Dr Aoife Foley, University of Manchester, said: "Professor Patricia Kearney and I are very excited to work on this novel and world-leading interdisciplinary SEAI-funded project, with Dr Fabio Silva and Dr Padraig Lyons from the IERC, which will develop innovative approaches to analyse, and address the health, well-being, and economic impacts of climate change and Net Zero roadmaps on society to ensure effective and targeted solutions to guide, direct and inform decision-making for all public, private and citizen stakeholders." The project is funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI).

You are invited to listen to the next Tech Connects podcast on Friday, August 23rd. Maybe you have heard of Tech Connects, but you're not sure what it is? Then join us for the next Tech Connects research podcast, featuring Dr. Charles Domercant, Senior Research Engineer and Research Engagements Manager for GTRI's Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Charles will speak in more detail about Tech Connects and why it is important to GTRI's mission and vision.

Dean discusses NASA Quesst's X-59 aircraft with Senior Research Engineer at NASA Langley, Dr. Jonathan Rathsam and Aerospace Engineer at NASA Armstrong, Ed Haering. Will supersonic air travel make a comeback? Homework assignment: Would you go on a suborbital flight? Send us your thoughts at lookingup@wvxu.org or post them on social media using #lookinguppod Want to find out how you can get involved with the Quesst mission? Check out nasa.gov/quesst to learn more! Music from Blue Dot Sessions this episode: Fornax Ditty, Louver, Voyager, Preston and Carle, Null Melody and TK Club. Music shortened to match episode. View license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Find Us Online: Twitter: @lookinguppod @deanregas, Instagram: @917wvxu @deanregas, Tiktok: @cincinnatipublicradio @astronomerdean, Episode transcript: www.wvxu.org/podcast/looking-up, More from Dean: www.astrodean.com

Jonathan Godwin  is the cofounder and CEO of Orbital Materials, where they're using Generative AI to develop a pipeline of new materials for carbon removal and energy transition. He was previously a Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind. Jonathan's favorite book: The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Author: Richard Rhodes) (00:07) The Process of Discovering New Materials(04:20) Building the Foundation Model(06:42) The Impact of Google's GNoME Project(08:49) Adding Materials to the Pipeline(11:08) Computational Screening and AI(13:43) Material Structures and Properties(18:41) Material Formation and Degradation(20:47) Materials for Carbon Removal and Energy Transition(23:44) Ensuring Material Safety(27:13) Exciting New Materials(28:07) Breakthroughs in Material Science(30:09) The Future of AI in Materials Discovery(34:07) Rapid Fire Round--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

In this episode, Host Ron Eddings talks with guest Isaac Clayton, Senior Research Engineer at NetSPI. Ron and Isaac discuss the importance of ASM for organizations of all sizes, the challenges of asset identification, and framing a practical strategy to handle ASM.   Impactful Moments: 00:00 - Welcome 03:00 - Introducing guest, Isaac Clayton 04:25 - Understanding ASM 07:57 - Factoring in Attackers 10:47 - “Admit it's a hard problem” 12:35 - Challenges & Surprises 15:03 - From our Sponsor, NetSPI 15:41 - The Right Medicine, The Right Dosage 19:04 - Zero Trust is Not Enough 20:37 - Prioritization— Baked In! 21:33 - The ASM Learning Curve 26:12 - “Not all ASM is Created Equal”   Links: Connect with our guest, Isaac Clayton : https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaac-clayton-24088696/ Check out NetSPI: asm.netspi.com Join our creative mastermind and stand out as a cybersecurity professional: https://www.patreon.com/hackervalleystudio Become a sponsor of the show to amplify your brand: https://hackervalley.com/work-with-us/ Love Hacker Valley Studio? Pick up some swag: https://store.hackervalley.com Continue the conversation by joining our Discord: https://hackervalley.com/discord

Are you interested in city consciousness? What do you think about knowledge and knowledge-creation? How can we remove bad stuff to improve the good stuff? Interview with Ben Vass, senior research engineer. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, space and time, threshold for bad experiences, opportunities in tools for improvements, and many more. Ben Vass is a senior research engineer, graph shaman and data magician, and the kind of person who wants to build a Dyson swarm and explore the stars, while in the meantime wants to understand how this consciousness thing works. He is always standing between 2 worlds and trying to connect them. Due to his strange brain, he sees everything as a network of networks, and tries to find the next intellectual thrill. In the past he had worked on swarm intelligence projects, spectral graphs, fraud detection, and GNNs to name a few, and he contributes to Open Source whenever he can. Ben currently works on upgrading the world's financial infrastructure to make it more transparent and verifiable. Everything is a network, you just don't see it yet, according to him. Ben's voice can be very familiar because he is the voice in the intro. And he is my partner in crime. Find out more about Ben through these links: Ben Vass on LinkedIn; Foundation by Isaac Asimov Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Network State Conference on YouTube TokCast by Brett Hall The Expanse series Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The beginning of infinity by David Deutsch The Anthology of Balaji by New material list by AI Starlink website zero-knowledge proof Connecting episodes you might be interested in: No.021R - Antifragile (book summary) No.182 - Interview with Ted Baillieu about Australian building habits No.222 - Interview with Adam Dorr about technological disruptions What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠@WTF4Cities⁠⁠⁠⁠ or on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠wtf4cities.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ website where the ⁠⁠⁠⁠shownotes⁠⁠⁠⁠ are also available. I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in. Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Lesfm ⁠⁠⁠⁠from ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠

Are you interested in city consciousness? What do you think about knowledge and knowledge-creation? How can we remove bad stuff to improve the good stuff? Trailer for the episode 180 - interview with Ben Vass, senior research engineer. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, space and time, threshold for bad experiences, opportunities in tools for improvements, and many more. Find out more in the ⁠⁠⁠⁠episode⁠⁠⁠⁠. Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Lesfm ⁠⁠⁠⁠from ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠⁠⁠

Today we have Angelos Chronis as our guest. Angelos is the CEO and Co-Founder of Infrared City GmbH as well as Senior Research Engineer at the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna and Senior Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. His work focuses on performative design, simulation, AI and data-driven design and optimization as well as interactive interfaces and AR/VR. He has developed various design and integrated simulation systems, such as InFraReD, a ground-breaking AI-driven climate simulation framework.In this episode you'll learn:The way we assess the value of buildings is crucial for promoting climate-resilient urban design.Maximizing the use of natural resources, such as daylight, should not be overlooked when focusing on emission-free buildings.AI plays a vital role in urban design, connecting natural resources with human interventions to determine the location, type, and approach to construction in cities.

Apple patches actively exploited iOS 17 vulnerability. Qakbot's survival of a major takedown. BADBOX puts malware into the device supply chain. LoonyTunables and a privilege-escalation risk. Scattered Spider believed responsible for cyberattack against Clorox. Sony discloses information on its data breach. In today's Threat Vector segment, Chris Tillett, Senior Research Engineer at Palo Alto Networks and member of the Advisory Board at Titaniam Labs, joins host David Moulton to delve inside the mind of an insider threat. Dave Bittner sits down with Eric Goldstein, Executive Assistant Director at CISA, to discuss shared progress against the ransomware threat. And the Kremlin tightens control over the Russian information space. On this segment of Threat Vector, Chris Tillett, Senior Research Engineer at Palo Alto Networks and member of the Advisory Board at Titaniam Labs, joins host David Moulton to delve inside the mind of an insider threat. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/12/191 Selected reading. Apple emergency update fixes new zero-day used to hack iPhones (BleepingComputer) Apple releases iOS 17.0.3 to address iPhone 15 overheating issues (Computing)  Apple Warns of Newly Exploited iOS 17 Kernel Zero-Day (SecurityWeek)  Qakbot-affiliated actors distribute Ransom Knight malware despite infrastructure takedown (Cisco Talos Blog) HUMAN Disrupts Digital Supply Chain Threat Actor Scheme Originating from China (HUMAN) Trojans All the Way Down: BADBOX and PEACHPIT (Human) 'Looney Tunables' Bug Opens Millions of Linux Systems to Root Takeover (Dark Reading) Looney Tunables: New Linux Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation on Major Distributions (The Hacker News)  Clorox Security Breach Linked to Group Behind Casino Hacks (Bloomberg)  Clorox Warns of a Sales Mess After Cyberattack (Wall Street Journal) Sony confirms data breach impacting thousands in the U.S. (BleepingComputer) Sony sent data breach notifications to about 6,800 individuals (Security Affairs)  Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 4, 2023 (Institute for the Study of War) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Dive into the world of human/robot collaboration with Erich Mielke, a Senior Research Engineer at 3M. Join our conversation as he discusses human and robot interactions, his creative process, and getting IP patented.

Engineering Success interview Caitlin McCall a Senior Research Engineer at Manufacturing Technology Centre in the field of Automation and Electronics. She is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Previously, she was a Materials and Manufacturing Engineer at Swansea University where she worked towards her ESPRC funded Engineering Doctorate in printed electronics for flexible packaging. She has published a paper in biosensors for glucose detection and is writing several more from her doctoral research. In 2021, Caitlin was awarded a place in the prestigious WES Top 50 Female Engineers list and a We Are The City Rising Star Award in 2022 for her contributions to the engineering industry. Caitlin is passionate about developing peoples' skill sets and supporting her community. She enjoys promoting engineering as Chair for the Women's Engineering Society's (WES) Early Careers Board and member of the WES Event Directors Committee.

Aadyot Bhatnagar, is a Senior Research Engineer at Salesforce, and co-creator of Merlion an open source framework for applying machine learning on time series data.  Merlion supports a wide range of time series learning tasks including forecasting, anomaly detection, and change point detection. Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Micah Sweeney, Senior Research Engineer at EPRI, joins Cade in the lab this week to discuss a survey of electrical usage in San Diego breweries of various sizes as well as ways to improve efficiency. The Brü Lab is brought to you by Imperial Yeast who provide brewers with the most viable and fresh yeast on the market. Learn more about what Imperial Yeast has to offer at ImperialYeast.com today. | Read More | Field Assessment of Energy Use in Craft Breweries in San Diego

In this episode of the Georgia Tech Research podcast, host Scott McAtee talks to Dr. Michael Hunter from the Georgia Tech civil engineering department and Dr. Sean Wilson from the Georgia Tech Research Institute's Aerospace Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory (ATAS). They discuss the benefits and problems of automated vehicles (AVs), as well as what is actually possible in AV development and what needs future research. Talking Points: Dr. Hunter is a professor in the Georgia Tech Civil Engineering department and has been delivering presentations on Autonomous Vehicles for years, including a 2016 Friday Morning Seminar at Georgia Tech Research Institute. His insight is centered around the application and support infrastructure for AV. Dr. Sean Wilson is a Senior Research Engineer in the GTRI Aerospace, Transportation & Advanced Systems Laboratory. His insight is centered around the technology needed to implement AV systems, with a focus on Department of Defense projects. The podcast questions focused on: Each guest's background in AV and what they are currently doing in the field. What the definition of an AV is from their perspective. What are the principal drivers of AV systems (Safety? Economics? Cost-Benefit? Other?). Where would each guest place the progress of AV systems across the country, by percent AV converted. What are the immediate, near term, and long-term challenges in the AV technology development and application spaces. Links: Georgia Tech news article: Will driverless cars make our traffic problems worse? Projects funded through Georgia Tech's “Autonomous Transportation and Connected Roads” Seed Grant Program

In this episode of the Tiaras and Tech podcast, Shelley Benhoff talks to Gabriela Martinez Sanches on the topic of finding the right mentors. Shelley is a Business Owner, Author, and Professional Speaker. She is also a Sitecore Technology MVP with experience as a Lead Developer for many years. Intro Hello, Gems! Welcome to another episode of Tiaras and Tech. I'm your host, Shelley Benhoff, and today I'm talking to Gabriela Martinez Sanchez about Finding the Right Mentors. She is a Senior Research Engineer at Microsoft, a Mom, and an amazing mentor. We talked about how she got her start in tech as a woman in Mexico, finding a job at Microsoft during the pandemic, and the importance of finding the right mentors (plural, you should have many) and how to find them. Without further ado, on to the episode! Connect with Gabriela! Twitter: https://twitter.com/gabrymartinez LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielamartinezs/ Medium: https://gabrymartinez.medium.com/ Connect with Shelley! https://twitter.com/sbenhoff https://pluralsight.pxf.io/mgGLbO Tiaras and Tech is dedicated to providing inspiration for women & marginalized groups in tech. We aim to provide support, celebrate successes, & discuss how we're treated. Follow us! YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram @tiarasandtech tiarasandtech.com Tiaras and Tech is a HoffsTech production. Thank you to Jerome Heaven for producing this episode! Theme music by Nobuo Uematsu and Juan Medrano https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03610 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tiaras-and-tech/support

In the first episode of the RIPE Labs podcast, Emile Aben, Senior Research Engineer at the RIPE NCC, shares his views on the importance of efforts to keep the Internet 'lit' by turning data from such sources as RIPE Atlas and RIPE RIS into visualisations that can help network operators understand what's going on when parts of the Internet get damaged.The RIPE NCC is not liable for the views and perspectives expressed by speakers. Check out acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.1:10 - Emile's profile on RIPE Labs2:32 - Analysis of Country-wide Internet Outages Caused by Censorship2:58 - RIPE Atlas, RIS4:32 - BGP Alerter4:40 - RIS Live5:25 - RIPEstat5:47 - Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit, BGP.Tools5:53 - IODA6:25 - Internet Health Report7:35 - The RIPE Labs Article Competition8:08 - The Ukrainian Internet, The Resilience of the Internet in Ukraine10:13 - The Kazakhstan Outage as seen from RIPE Atlas12:44 - IXP Country Jedi17:40 - Hosting a RIPE Atlas probe22:14 - Internet outages as seen from RIPE Atlas in Observable HQ24:05 - RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund24:20 - CAIDA's BGP (Hijacking) Observatory25:00 - RACI Funding in 2021 - Planning and Projects Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you ever experienced conflict in your local church that resulted in hurt for you or a friend?Then listen as Pastor Mike Castelli shares his story of how he encountered God in the midst of a season of turmoil in his local church. You'll hear the simple prayers that grounded him during a period of isolation and how trust and rest were central to his healing journey.If you'd like to hear more about what Pastor Mike learned through this situation, you can find his sermon series "Lessons from the Pit," here.Pastor Mike serves as the Lead Pastor at The Chapel in Green where Asheritah and her family attend. He came to The Chapel in 2000, after working as a Senior Research Engineer for 12 years at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. You can connect with him through The Chapel's Facebook page and on Instagram @thechapelgreen.Are you excited about this new season? Then text a few friends and start a Prayers of REST prayer group! It's simple: just invite a few friends, commit to listening to the prayer episode each week, and then share with each other what God is revealing to you in prayer. Pray for each other, encourage each other, and maybe once a month try to meet together for a time of live prayer together. Why? Because we learn how to pray not by reading a book about prayer or listening to a sermon about prayer, but by actually praying together.Until we meet again, may you find rest in God's loving presence.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/prayersofrest)

It's our Season 1 finale!! I drive an electric vehicle. I recycle. I use energy companies that provide a good portion of their power through renewable sources. Am I making a difference? If, like me, that is something you think about daily, then join us for a today's conversation with Richard Simmons. Richard is a Senior Research Engineer and Fellow at the Strategic Energy Institute. He has also advised the US Department of State on international policy issues related to renewable energy. He has authored numerous publications including the 2014 book Understanding the Global Energy Crisis and is one of today's top minds in the fields of energy technologies, transportation energy technology and future energy policy and strategy. So let's jump right into a conversation about energy policy and innovation, what the future of energy looks like in the USA and across the globe and start to get to the bottom of the big climate change questions we all have and get a better understanding of the real impact we're having and how we are helping to save the future.

Episode 011 | January 18, 2022Keratoconus is a severe eye disease that affects the cornea, causing it to become weak and develop a conical bulge. Keratoconus, if undiagnosed and entreated, can lead to partial or complete blindness in people affected by it. However, the equipment needed to diagnose keratoconus is expensive and non-portable, which makes early detection of keratoconus inaccessible to large populations in low and middle income countries. This makes it a leading cause for partial or complete blindness amongst such populations. Doctors from Sankara Eye Hospital, Bengaluru and researchers from Microsoft Research India have been working together to develop SmartKC, a low-cost and portable diagnostic system that can enable early detection and mitigation of keratoconus. Join us as we speak to Dr. Kaushik Murali from Sankara Eye Hospital and Dr. Mohit Jain from Microsoft Research India.Dr. Kaushik Murali, President Medical Administration, Quality & Education, Sankara Eye Foundation India (Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust) which is among the largest structured community eye hospital network in India, (www.sankaraeye.com) with an objective of providing world class eye care with a social impact. A paediatric ophthalmologist, Dr. Kaushik has completed a General Management Programme and is an alumnus of Insead. He has done a course on Strategic Management of Non Profits at the Harvard Business School. He has been certified in infection control, risk management for health care and digital disruption. He is a member of Scalabl, a global community promoting entrepreneurship.  Dr. Kaushik is a member of the Scientific Committee of Vision 2020, the Right to Sight India. He is currently involved in collaborative research projects among others with the University of Bonn & Microsoft.Dr. Kaushik has received many recognitions, key among them being the Bernadotte Foundation for Children's Eyecare Travel Grant, Mother Teresa Social Leadership Scholarship ,International Eye Health Hero, All India Ophthalmological Society best research, International Association for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) Eye Health Hero, Indian Journal of Ophthalmology Certificate of Merit. Beyond the medical world, he is part of the National Management Team of Young Indians – Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He represented India at G20 Young Entrepreneur Alliance 2018 at Argentina and led the Indian delegation for the Inaugural India- Israel Young Leaders Forum in 2019. More recently, he led the first citizen's cohort for a workshop on Strategic Leadership at LBSNAA (Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration). Mohit Jain is a Senior Researcher in the Technology and Empowerment (TEM) group at Microsoft Research India. His research interests lie at the intersection of Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. Currently, he focuses on developing end-to-end systems providing low-cost smartphone-based patient diagnostic solutions for critical diseases. Over the past decade, he has worked on technological solutions for the developing regions focusing on health, accessibility, education, sustainability, and agriculture.He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington, focusing on extending interactivity, accessibility and security of conversational systems. While pursuing his Ph.D., he also worked as a Senior Research Engineer in the Cognitive IoT team at IBM Research India. Prior to that, he graduated with a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelors in Information and Communication Technology from DA-IICT.For more information about the SmartKC project, and for project related code, click here.For more information about the Microsoft Research India click here.RelatedMicrosoft Research India Podcast: More podcasts from MSR IndiaiTunes: Subscribe and listen to new podcasts on iTunesAndroidRSS FeedSpotifyGoogle PodcastsEmailTranscript  Dr. Murali Kaushik: Sitting in an eye hospital, often we have ideas, but we have no clue whom to ask. But honestly, now we know that there is a team at MSR that we can reach out to saying that hey, here is a problem, we think this warrants attention. Do you think you guys can solve it? And we found that works really well. So, this kind of a collaboration is, I think, a phenomenal impact that this project has brought together, and we hope that together we will be able to come up with few more solutions that can align with our founders' dream of eliminating needless blindness from India. [Music]Sridhar Vedantham: Welcome to the Microsoft Research India podcast, where we explore cutting-edge research that's impacting technology and society. I'm your host, Sridhar Vedantham.[Music]Sridhar Vedantham: Keratoconus is a severe eye disease that affects the cornea, causing it to become weak and develop a conical bulge. Keratoconus, if undiagnosed and entreated, can lead to partial or complete blindness in people affected by it. However, the equipment needed to diagnose keratoconus is expensive and non-portable, which makes early detection of keratoconus inaccessible to large populations in low and middle income countries. This makes it a leading cause for partial or complete blindness amongst such populations. Doctors from Sankara Eye Hospital, Bengaluru and researchers from Microsoft Research India have been working together to develop SmartKC, a low-cost and portable diagnostic system that can enable early detection and mitigation of keratoconus. Join us as we speak to Dr. Kaushik Murali from Sankara Eye Hospital and Dr. Mohit Jain from Microsoft Research India. [Music] Sridhar Vedantham: So, Dr. Kaushik and Mohit, welcome to the podcast.  Mohit Jain: Hi, Sridhar. Dr. Kaushik Murali: Hi Sridhar, pleasure to be here.  Sridhar Vedantham: It's our pleasure to host you, Doctor Kaushik, and for me this is going to be a really interesting podcast for a couple of reasons. One is that the topic itself is kind of so far afield from what I normally here at Microsoft Research and the second is I think you're the first guest we are having on the podcast who's actually not part of MSR, so basically a collaborator. So, this is really exciting for me. So let me jump right into this. We're going to be talking about something called keratoconus, so could you educate us a little bit as to what keratoconus actually is and what its impact is?  Dr. Kaushik Murali: So, imagine that you were a 14-year-old who was essentially near sighted. You wore glasses and you were able to see. But with passing time, your vision became more distorted rather than being blurred, which is what you would have expected if just your minus power kept increasing, especially for distance. And to add to your misery, you started seeing more glare and more halos at nighttime. Words that you started to read had shadows around them or even started to look doubled. This essentially is the world of a person with Keratoconus. Literally it means cone shaped. Keratoconus is a condition of the cornea, which is the transparent front part of the eye, similar to your watch glass, where instead of it normally retaining its dome shape, it is characterized by progressive thinning and weakening of the central part, what we call as a stroma, and this makes the cornea take on a conical shape. In a few, this can actually even progress beyond what I describe, where the central cornea overtime becomes scarred and the person could no longer be corrected, with just optical devices like a glass or a contact lens but may actually end up requiring a corneal transplant.   Sridhar Vedantham: I see, and what are the causes for this?  Dr. Kaushik Murali: So there have been very many causes that have been attributed, so it's thought to be multifactorial. So, this again makes it a little tricky in terms of us not being able to prevent the condition, so to speak. But multiple risk factors are known. Ultraviolet exposure, chronic allergies; habitual eye rubber is thought to be more prone for this. Essentially, you end up seeing it more during the pubertal age group, and more in men.  Sridhar Vedantham: I see. And how widespread is this problem, really? Because frankly, I'm of course as lay a person as you can get, and I hadn't really heard of eye disease called keratoconus until I spoke to Mohit at some point and then of course after reading papers and so on. But what is the extent of the issue and is it really that widespread a problem? Dr. Kaushik Murali: So, unlike most other conditions, there is no real population-based survey where we have screened every household to arrive at numbers. But largely, we base our estimation on small surveys that have been done across different parts of the world. Based on this, we estimate that it is approximately affecting about one in 2000 individuals. So, in the US, for example, it is thought to affect almost about 55 people in about 100,000, who had been diagnosed with keratoconus. But in countries like India, it is thought to be more widespread. So there was actually a survey in central India where they found almost 2300 people out of 100,000 people being affected with keratoconus. So, the numbers are quite large. And again, all of this could be underestimated simply because we don't have enough ability to screen. And what makes this number even scarier is this is a disease that typically affects people between the age group of 10 and 25. So, once they're affected and they're progressively going to have their vision come down, they're going to spend most of their protective years not being able to see clearly.  Sridhar Vedantham: OK, that is kind of scary.  Mohit Jain: I would just like to add to that is that there is actually a combination of demographics, genetic and weather condition which makes India a really good host for this disease. So, apparently Indian population tend to have a thinner and steeper cornea to begin with and moreover the hot and humid climate of India actually contribute towards keratoconus because it causes irritation which leads to frequent rubbing of the eye and that can actually start the process of distortion of the cornea.  Sridhar Vedantham: OK, so that just made the problem sound a little scarier because there are these conditions that cannot be altered, right? I mean climate and stuff like that we can't really change. Uh, OK, doctor, so, this is basically a well-established and recognized disease, right? So, what are the barriers and hurdles actually to effective diagnosis and treatment of this disease? Dr. Kaushik Murali: So, in any health intervention the barriers typically are availability, accessibility and affordability. And when you look at a condition like keratoconus, all these barriers actually again come into play. So, the clinical gold standard for diagnosing keratoconus essentially entails us being able to map the curvature of the corneal surface using a technique known as corneal topography. So, here we either use something called as a Placido base, where you project a disc kind of structure onto the cornea and capture an image using tomographers, or you use certain other technology to map out the surface of the cornea, both the anterior and the posterior surface. But all these devices, by and large are non-portable and are expensive. And these are typically available again at secondary or tertiary eye hospitals. India is a land of diversity. We have some of the best health care in cities like Bangalore where we are sitting and doing this recording while you move about 150 to 200 kilometers away, it's a completely different world out there. The cost of each of these tests again, makes this diagnosis very inaccessible to large sections of population, not only in India but in similar middle and low income countries. And to add to this, you have the bogey of the pandemic. So, with COVID-19 in play the last two years with restrictions on travel, it has become very difficult for young children to actually undergo annual eye exams where we could have even proactively tried to pick up some of these conditions.  Sridhar Vedantham: OK, alright, Mohit, let me bring you in here. I'm curious as to what Microsoft Research is doing as part of this particular research collaboration, right? Because keratoconus sounds very, very far afield from Microsoft Research's typical computer science focus. Mohit Jain: So, I think one of the key pillars of MSR India is societal impact. So, if we can develop a diagnostic tool which can save even a handful of children getting blind, we think it has huge societal impact and Microsoft Research India completely, I think, supports such kind of technological solutions. With respect to the computer science research lab, we have developed a solution which actually uses cutting edge AI, especially in the field of image processing and then also we have developed a full end to end system. So hence there are like enough computer science research problem, really hard ones, that we actually solve as part of this research collaboration.  Sridhar Vedantham: OK, so that's a good lead into me to ask you to talk a little bit about the solution that's been developed here. Mohit Jain: So, I think the solution has actually 3 core components. So the first component is actually a Placido disc like what Dr. Kaushik said that like there has to be something which projects concentric rings over the cornea. So, we actually 3D printed a Placido disc. So, we actually attach that Placido to the back of a smartphone camera and then capture an image of the cornea with the Placido projected over the cornea of a human. And the second component we have is actually a smart phone app which has inbuilt AI in it. So, in real time it actually helps the person who is capturing the image to actually get a perfect image because I think one of the core design principles that we had while working on this was to make sure that anyone can use this app to actually diagnose. We don't want like medical technician to be only be able to use it. So, there is some kind of AI assistance to help capture perfect image of the eye. And the third then we have like an image processing pipeline which takes this captured image as input and converts that into corneal topography heat maps. So, basically it gives a curvature heat map, which tells you like what is the curvature at each point of the cornea, and that is the kind of output that you also get from a medical grade corneal topographer.  Sridhar Vedantham: So, the way you explain it sounds very simple, but I'm sure there were a bunch of challenges, while you know, both Sankara and MSR was doing the research. Can you give me a sense of what kind of challenges you faced?  Mohit Jain: Yes, yes, I think the most trickiest part of this project was to actually do it in a portable setting. So right now the corneal topographer, that is like a $10,000 device which is there in Sankara hospital. There is actually a headrest and a chin rest. So, basically your whole face like the patient face is very very stable and hence the image capture process is fairly easy. Apart from that the topographer has a lot of specific hardware. For example, it has a specific hardware to determine how far is the eye from the camera, so which is actually called as a working distance, and getting that parameter right is very crucial. Like even a few millimeters of actually predicting that value wrong can completely change the generated heat map. So, we have to actually design a very innovative solution to figure out this working distance directly just from the captured image and the second part was that, like we actually did a lot of iteration on the Placido disc and also on the AI assistance which was actually running on the smart phone to actually help capture the best image, even without any kind of a support system in place, like without any headrest or chin rest.  Sridhar Vedantham: Dr. Kaushik was there anything you wanted to add to that in terms of challenges from a medical point of view?  Dr. Kaushik Murali: So, from the medical point of view, we are people of habit. When I say that, there is certain things that we are comfortable about and certain things that puts us off. So, one of the key challenges we gave to the MSR team was saying that the interface and reports had to be similar to what we were used to seeing. So, I think the challenge also came to the team in terms of ensuring that the heat maps were similar to the heat maps that we were used to seeing using a regular topographer and how we actually were able to match with it. So, the minute we were able to get that kind of familiarity built in, we found our doctors also being able to accept it much better. And once that was done then automatically the learning curve that came in in terms of using the device or interpreting the images came down very very fast. So, we were able to adapt to this much faster. We were even able to get some of our colleagues from other units to read these heat maps that we generated, just to validate it. Because we were also concerned saying that when you are putting it out as a screening device you should end up overestimating the disease. Because there is an indirect cost to a person and imagine the psychological impact to a parent if you tell him your young child may have a possible problem. So we didn't want to do that, so we were very finicky about the validation. So, it went through multiple iterations almost to the effect that Mohit and his team could have lunch on a Thursday, only after they finished a call with us. (Laughs)  Mohit Jain: To add to that, this is actually a very crucial point. Initially what we were thinking, so there are like these two values called as sensitivity and specificity. So just to give you some context here, sensitivity is actually if the person has keratoconus, are we able to diagnose it as keratoconus. So that's the sensitivity. Specificity is that if the person does not have Keratoconus are we actually even diagnosing that correctly? So, we were thinking that we need to get really high sensitivity. We cannot leave anyone who has keratoconus undiagnosed. But we can have low specificity that even someone who does not have keratoconus, we can say that he or she has keratoconus and still it's OK because then he or she will actually go to a doctor and get checked up, maybe for a second time and then it will be diagnosed that he or she does not have keratoconus. But Dr. Kaushik specifically was really against that. OK, so he actually made our problem statement harder, saying that we want both sensitivity and specificity to be above 92%, OK. Because he does not want like parents to be unnecessarily worrying that their kid who is like in his teens right now and he has like this very serious eye condition. So hence we actually have to like, as what Dr. Kaushik said, like you have to go through multiple iteration to even like get the specificity right. And right now, I think we are at a stage where we have like both the numbers which are above 94% for a small trial that we did with Sankara, with more than 100 patients, and in future we plan to actually extend that trial and like do it in many more patients. [Music]  Sridhar Vedantham: A question for both you, Mohit, as well as Doctor Kaushik, so, whoever wants to answer it. You know, you just put out some numbers there in terms of percentages, right, to say that this solution works well, but typically these need to be tagged against some kind of industry benchmark or some kind of medical benchmark given the established machines and equipment already that are already being used, right? So how does this SmartKC stack up against those?  Dr. Kaushik Murali: So once the MSR team had come up with a complete solution and they had tested in their lab the reliability of the solution, so to speak, with the images that they had with them, we then apply to our Ethics Committee for a prospective study. So, we enrolled subjects coming to our hospital, and we had them get their cornea image with the SmartKC as well as with the Placido based topography system that we have in our hospital that we would typically have used in any case. One index that the device that we use in the hospital uses to identify keratoconus, is an index called as the percentage probability of keratoconus, or the PPK value. This if it is more than 45% is supposed to indicate the presence of keratoconus. So, what we found was with the SmartKC, the sensitivity of PPK value was 94.1% and the specificity was 100%, which was pretty comparable to what we had with our other device which stood at about 94.1% sensitivity and 95.5% specificity. More importantly, whenever you use any device as a screening tool is how repeatable is it, and how is the inter-rater agreement. If two different people use the same device on the same person, are they actually reading it out the same. So again, in this we found those indices to be really, really high. So, there's something called as the Cohen's Kappa value. This was about 0.94 for our tool, which compared to 0.96 for the device that we have in the hospital. This essentially indicates a fair agreement between two experts diagnosing keratoconus based on the images that we are generating using the SmartKC.  Sridhar Vedantham: Wow, that's impressive. Uh, I had another question. You know, whenever I went into an eye hospital, there always seemed to be somebody who is well trained as a technician operating various machines. How does it work with this? I mean do you need any specific training on SmartKC? How intensive is that and are there any particular type of people you look for or some kind of skill level in people who can operate a SmartKC unit?  Dr. Kaushik Murali: So, currently most of the data that was collected has been done by our optometry interns at the Sankara College of Optometry, so the skill set that was required was not very high. Like Mohit mentioned earlier, there is some assistant in terms of even how you can capture an image. So, the eventual endpoint for us would be this being used at a peripheral vision center or at some Primary Health Center as a part of a school screening program where a lay person can pick up this device and actually capture an image and at least be able to counsel the person about them having to have a further examination. So, the training that would probably be required is largely in terms of what the condition that they are screening for and what the next action needs to be. it's more counseling skill I would say rather than anything really technical. The machine does at all. It gives them a heat map, it tells them what the value is, it kind of literally puts up a red flag saying “Boss, be careful, there is a problem here”.  Sridhar Vedantham: So, I'm guessing that's all part of the technology that's been built into it, say you know various guardrails to ensure that whoever is operating it is doing it in the right way, Mohit?  Mohit Jain: Yes, yes Sridhar. So, basically in the latest version of the app, what we have done is that like the operator, whoever is actually capturing the image, he or she doesn't even have to click the capture button. So, you just have to place the SmartKC on a patient eye and it automatically tries to align it appropriately with the eye and once the alignment is right, once the image does not have any kind of a blur and the focus is appropriate, the light is fine, it automatically captures three images. So, that actually makes the process really easy for the operator. And he or she needs to go through very minimal training to get up and running with the device.  Sridhar Vedantham: Nice. And you know we have referred earlier to the cost of current machines that are there that are used in eye hospitals and so on, right? And one of the guiding principles behind developing SmartKC was for something to be portable, inexpensive and easy to use in the field. One thing that I don't think we've spoken about yet is actually how inexpensive SmartKC is, and I'm also curious to find out whether the equipment that you use needs to be high end. For example, do you need a high-end mobile phone to do it and how does the whole system work?  Mohit Jain: Yes, so currently for developing our research prototype, we actually end up spending like almost like $33 is the amount that we are end up spending making the device, apart from the smartphone. The smartphone that we are using is a slightly high end one, so it is around like a $400 device that we have used for the current prototype. But moving ahead we are actually for the next round of data collection with Sankar Hospital, we are actually trying out with like three different devices and starting from like $100 device, $200 device and the $300 device, so that we can actually see that with whether it works on all the devices. However, based on our current work, we hypothesize that, actually, it can work on any standard smartphone. It just needs a decent camera. By the way, nowadays even the $100 device have like a 20-megapixel camera. So, I think that's already taken care by the by the most of the latest smartphone. So, I think yeah, it should ideally work in all of them, but we will only know for sure once we have the second round of testing.  Sridhar Vedantham: Cool. Uh, so you know, given that you've put in so much work and you've come up with something that sounds like a fantastic solution, what kind of impact do you think a SmartKC can have or what kind of impact do you hope SmartKC will have?  Mohit Jain: So right now, actually, we have discussed a few use cases with Dr. Kaushik, and I think the most interesting use case is what Dr. Kaushik initially referred to is the teacher use case. The biggest impact SmartKC could have is that, let's say, all the teachers in India, even the rural one, urban one, semi urban or even like low-income community even in urban India they have access to SmartKC. And every year maybe twice a year or thrice a year they screen every children in their school for keratoconus. And because the numbers are really high, the numbers are like two to three children out of everyone hundred children will have keratoconus, so with that in mind, we should be able to get like a few cases from every school. So, if these are diagnosed very early on, then there is a very very high likelihood that they could have been treated just by simple glasses or contact lens, and they don't have to go through surgery or corneal transplant or blindness, which is the worst-case situation. By the way, I think earlier when we are talking about corneal transplant, so globally 27% of the corneal transplant happens to actually fix keratoconus. So it is, it is a very deadly disease.  Dr. Kaushik Murali: So, I'm going to take off on a tangent. I'm actually going to look beyond just this particular solution. So, although I am here representing Sankara at this podcast, a couple of my colleagues actually did a deep dive into this entire solution. Dr. Anand and Dr. Pallavi were there, as well as some of our faculty from the College of Optometry. What this project has actually impacted us is to think of how we can actually leverage technology. Sitting in an eye hospital, often we have ideas, but we have no clue whom to ask. But honestly, now we know that there is a team at MSR that we can reach out to saying that hey, here is a problem, we think this warrants attention. Do you think you guys can solve it? And we found that works really well. So, this ability to collaborate between complete extremes of people, one end you have medical specialists have no clue about what engineering is. Today I think Mohit knows more optometry than even I do. (Laughs) So they actually borrowed textbooks from us to read. So, this kind of a collaboration is, I think, a phenomenal impact that this project has brought together, and we hope that together we will be able to come up with few more solutions that can align with our founders' dream of eliminating needless blindness from India. Sridhar Vedantham: Nice, congratulations Mohit.   Mohit Jain: Thank you. (Laughs).  Sridhar Vedantham: I'll come to you for my next eye test.  Dr. Kaushik Murali: You will soon start referring to him as Doctor Mohit. (Laughs)  Sridhar Vedantham:  All right. I think I've got all the information that I really wanted. But one thing is, you know, if people want to adopt SmartKC and they want to take it out there in the field, what do they need to do? And are there any particular requirements or criteria that they need to fulfil, etc? I mean, how do people get hold of this?  Mohit Jain: So right now, we have actually made everything open source. So, even the 3D print for the Placido disc, the STL file of that is open source. So, anyone can download it and just like you take a printout, you can actually go to a makerspace and get a 3D print of that. Even the app which is actually AI assisted app which is running on the smartphone, we have only written it for an Android phone, so you can actually download it and you can install it on your Android phone and connect that SmartKC Placido attachment and can click an image of eye. The image processing pipelines code is also completely open source, so the selected image you can then run on it to actually generate corneal topography heat map. So, that is that is the current state. Going ahead we are actually putting everything on the cloud so that once you have the Placido disc and you capture an image, it automatically goes to the cloud and gives you the final output.  Sridhar Vedantham: Excellent. So I will add links to various things onto the podcast page once we're done with this. Dr. Kaushik, any final thoughts before we close this podcast?  Dr. Kaushik Murali: So quite often we look at challenges as challenges, but I think essentially this collaboration has looked at an opportunity and how we can actually work on it. All it required was to put some method to the madness and what came up as one discussion is today, I think, churned out into three different projects that are currently underway. So, this is something that is a potential. It would be lovely if similar technology companies can collaborate with medical institutions across India. We don't have to look elsewhere for solutions. It's all here. It's up to us to figure it out and run with it. Sridhar Vedantham: That's a great note to end the podcast on. So, once again thank you so much, Dr. Kaushik and Dr. Mohit. Thank you so much. (Laughs)  Mohit Jain: Thank you, Sridhar.  [Music ends] 

In this episode of the Immersive Audio Podcast, Oliver Kadel and Monica Bolles are joined by the director of the Applied Psychoacoustics Laboratory at the University of Huddersfield – Hyunkook Lee. Dr Hyunkook Lee is a Reader (i.e., Associate Professor) in Music Technology and the Director of the Applied Psychoacoustics Laboratory, University of Huddersfield, U.K. His research over the last 10 years contributed to advancing the understanding of three-dimensional (3D) audio perception and developing new 3D capture and reproduction techniques. He has invented various psychoacoustics-based 3D microphone arrays including PCMA-3D and ESMA-3D, whose principle for height microphone configuration has been adopted for Schoep's award-winning ORTF-3D array. Recently, he has been focusing on researching and developing perceptually optimised techniques of 6DoF audio rendering for extended reality applications. He is also currently leading a multidisciplinary project that connects immersive arts and technologies. From 2006 to 2010, he was a Senior Research Engineer in audio R&D with LG Electronics, South Korea, where he participated in the standardisations of MPEG audio codecs and developed spatial audio algorithms for mobile devices. He is an Associate Technical Editor of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (AES). He co-edited a recently published book “3D Audio” (Routledge). Hyunkook is a Fellow of the AES, Vice-Chair of the AES High-Resolution Audio Technical Committee, and has recently been elected as a Governor of the AES for 2022-2023. Dr Lee received a B. Mus (Hons) degree in music and sound recording (Tonmeister) from the University of Surrey, U.K., in 2002 and a PhD in spatial audio psychoacoustics from the Institute of Sound Recording (IoSR), the University of Surrey in 2006. In this episode, we discuss Hyunkook's recent research on “A Conceptual Model of Immersive Experience in Extended Reality” and its influence on spatial audio. This episode was produced by Oliver Kadel and Emma Rees and included music by Rhythm Scott. For extended show notes and more information on this episode go to https://www.1618digital.com/immersive-audio-podcast-episode-59-hyunkook-lee-a-conceptual-model-of-immersive-experience-in-extended-reality/ If you enjoy the podcast and would like to show your support please consider becoming a Patreon. Not only are you supporting us, but you will also get special access to bonus content and much more. Find out more on our official Patreon page - www.patreon.com/immersiveaudiopodcast We thank you kindly in advance! We want to hear from you! We value our community and would appreciate it if you would take our very quick survey and help us make the Immersive Audio Podcast even better: surveymonkey.co.uk/r/3Y9B2MJ Thank you! You can follow the podcast on Twitter @IAudioPodcast for regular updates and content or get in touch via podcast@1618digital.com

Electric autonomous vehicles shuttle us to high-tech mass transit hubs. Our fare system is contactless. We've already paid via a customized, equitable subscription model. All the trains and buses are on time. And we don't have to wait in traffic. This is a world in which we can hop in a car to get somewhere, but we don't have to. In this episode, the second in our five-part series on transportation, Dr. Giovanni Circella paints a picture of a net zero world in which public transportation improves our quality of life, while also reducing carbon emissions.  What will it take to get there? Dr. Circella and Dr. Melissa Lott talk about electrifying transit, coordinating autonomous vehicles for the public benefit, land use planning, fare pricing, and why so many in developing countries aspire to car ownership.  And we tell the story of TransMiCable, an electric cable car system in Bogotá, Columbia, and the researchers who are tracking the impact on the long commutes and air quality for residents of some of its poorest neighborhoods. Guests: Dr. Giovanni Circella directs the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program at UC-Davis and is a Senior Research Engineer at Georgia Tech. Dr. Olga Lucia Sarmiento is a Professor of the Department of Public Health at the School of Medicine at Universidad de los Andes. Brett Marsh is a journalist and photographer based in Oakland, CA.  The Big Switch is produced by Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy in partnership with Post Script Media. This episode was produced by Daniel Woldorff and Alexandria Herr. Theme music and mixing by Sean Marquand. A special thanks to Natalie Volk, Kirsten Smith and Kyu Lee. Our executive editor was Stephen Lacey.

Becky offers her real-world experience working as a leader who's an introvert in a male-dominated world. Listen for how she wow'd a skeptical audience and had them requesting her back the following year, along with the secret about confidence.Some takeaways:Confidence is a skill - it's something you can work on and improve. You're not necessarily born with it so there's HOPE. You can build it and be happy with how you project yourself. Remind yourself that you're the expert. Speak like you are, too.Give yourself the grace to say I don't knowKnow what to say “yes” to and what to say “no” to It's not about perfectionCome up with a plan to overcome your fearsAbout Becky Mueller:Becky is a leader and technical expert in the automotive safety industry responsible for the development of both the next-generation side-impact crash test and passenger-side small overlap crash test. She's a Senior Research Engineer at Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Becky has experience serving in multiple Board of Director-level positions in professional and community service organizations."I always had an interest in cars, which is a pretty unusual thing for little girls to be interested in," Mueller told Rewire.org back in 2017. "My family I sat down one night (when she was 10 years old) — my parents always watched Dateline, on NBC — and I actually saw the very first crash test results from the Insurance Institute and it just kind of clicked for me. I was like 'This is so cool! I'd be able to work with cars every day, get paid to destroy something, and do something that is good for people. I can save people's lives and they never even have to meet me." To get the ball rolling on her nascent career, she would build Lego cars and crash them into a Lego wall. Now, with the pandemic keeping her at home, she kept busy by going back to where it all started.Connect with Becky:https://www.linkedin.com/in/beckycgunn/About me:Karen Laos is a keynote speaker and leadership coach equipping women to stand out with unshakable confidence. She specializes in communication: executive presence and compelling messages. Karen champions female business leaders to own their value and find their voice so they can be seen and heard. She also works with teams to create cultures of trust and function at their best.Karen has coached leaders at Facebook, Google, Netflix, Uber, Sephora, Sony, Microsoft, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, Trip Advisor, Bacardi, Levi, and more. Karen's style is fun, encouraging and results-oriented. She immediately moves past the “fluff” and gets straight to the issue (just ask her clients).Connect with me:Website: https://www.karenlaos.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenlaosconsultingFacebook: Ignite Your Confidence with Karen Laos: https://www.facebook.com/groups/karenlaosconsultingLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenlaos/Clubhouse: @karenlaosEpisodes also available on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEwQoTGdJX5eME0ccBKiKng/videos

In this episode of The Sustainable Angler, I interview National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Sherry Stout. NREL "advances the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, and renewable power technologies and provides the knowledge to integrate and optimize energy systems" and Sherry is the Arctic Strategic Program Manager and Senior Research Engineer for NREL. However, Sherry and I met because she reached out to me because she purchased a SaraBella fly rod because of their commitment to go carbon neutral and being a member of the Fly Fishing Climate Alliance. We discuss everything from the energy crisis of the 1970's to how the Arctic is warming 3x faster than the rest of the planet is a canary in the coal mine of sorts of what is to come related to climate change. We also discuss how to responsible fish for trout as stream temperatures rise, as well as the stream closures and Hoot Owl Restrictions that are in place in Colorado, Oregon and Montana due to low stream flows and high water temperatures. Finally we chat about the challenges associated with cities transitioning to 100% renewable energy and Sherry shares a message of climate hope. Below are some links to some of the topics Sherry mentions and I hope you enjoy!

In this episode Pranoti sits down with Karyn Jarvis, Senior Research Engineer at Swinburne University of Technology at the time of recording, to take a deeper dive into Karyn‘s research journey. This vintage episode of the Under the Microscope podcast was originally released on 25.08.2021.

This episode's guest is Karyn Jarvis, who was a Senior Research Engineer at Swinburne University of Technology at the time of recording. This vintage episode of the Under the Microscope podcast was originally released on 22.08.2021.

Le machine learning consiste à laisser la machine générer un code informatique plutôt que ce dernier ne soit écrit par un humain. Il est encore souvent supervisé, c'est-à-dire que le jeu de données utilisé pour entraîner l'algorithme est étiqueté, mais on rencontre de plus en plus souvent des modes d'apprentissage non supervisés. D'après Emmanuel Benazera, mon invité dans ce podcast et Senior Research Engineer in Artificial Intelligence à Jolibrain, le machine learning sert principalement deux objectifs : automatiser les tâches récurrentes, comme par exemple modérer les contenus d'un réseau social, et à rendre possible des choses qui ne l'étaient pas jusqu'à maintenant. Avec Emmanuel, nous parlons de ces réseaux de neurones qui de manière invisible ont transformé notre quotidien. Notes de l'épisode TinyML: Machine Learning With Tensorflow Lite on Arduino and Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers chez O'Reilly sur Amazon : https://www.amazon.fr/TinyML-Learning-TensorFlow-Ultra-Low-Power-Microcontrollers-ebook/dp/B082TY3SX7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1627247939&sr=8-1

What are the possible paths and necessary steps to achieve net-zero emissions in the United States by 2050? Which energy sources could sufficiently decrease our reliance on natural gas and oil to meet that target? And how much will those new energy sources need to scale from where they are today?Dr. Eric Larson is a lead author of the Net-Zero America Report - a Princeton University research initiative that presents five possible pathways to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 - and Senior Research Engineer at Princeton's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.In this episode, Dr. Larson takes Climate Now hosts James Lawler and Katherine Gorman through the various pathways to net-zero, including the technologies that could help us achieve it.

Today’s episode features Affectiva CEO Dr. Rana el Kaliouby interviewing Dr. Jinmo Lee, Senior Research Engineer at Hyundai. Dr. Lee was always interested in working in industry to see how his research outcomes turn into products that change customers' lives. Hyundai offered him a job as a senior research engineer for the vehicle aeroacoustics, and today he is in charge of future mobility UX concept design and engineering at Hyundai. Then in 2018, MIT Media Lab and Hyundai launched the Special Interest Group for Emotion Navigation. Together with Hyundai and the Media Lab, Dr. Lee derived automotive AI concepts for sensing occupant emotion to help achieve their desired emotional state by providing an optimized in-cabin environment. 

Climate change is having a significant effect on Arctic communities. The loss of permafrost and ice sheets, sea level rise, erosion, and many other factors are putting people living in coastal communities and their traditional way of life at risk. In this episode, we’re talking with Jeff King, Deputy Lead of the Engineering With Nature program at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Sam Whitin, Coastal Resilience Director at EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc. PBC; and Enda Murphy, Senior Research Engineer at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). We’re discussing the unique challenges and opportunities involved in identifying and designing resilience strategies to help remote northern communities in Alaska and Canada whose future and way of life is imminently threatened by climate change. And we’re reflecting on how Engineering With Nature approaches could be used to address critical challenges faced by remote northern communities.   The Arctic region is warming at a much higher rate than other parts of the continent. Retreating sea ice, shorter ice season duration, and thawing permafrost are contributing to the destabilization of coastlines. And, as Enda points out, “a lot of these remote northern communities are really reliant on fishing and hunting and the land for subsistence and their livelihoods. That creates an even greater imperative to understand and adapt to the changing climate.” Sam adds that communities in Alaska are also experiencing significant issues related to erosion and flooding, along with impacts to migratory patterns of fish, wildlife and whales: “Given the close connection that these communities have related to subsistence hunting and fishing, climate change is magnified in even more ways than most people typically consider.”   Jeff, Sam, and Enda came together around their common interest of better understanding these impacts and responding to them by applying Engineering With Nature principles and processes. Jeff, through separate conversations with Sam and Enda, “saw a unique opportunity to engage and collaborate and bring more expertise into a region where it's desperately needed.”   One upcoming EWN research project will focus on the whaling community of Point Hope, Alaska, whose traditional way of life is currently being challenged by the accelerating impacts of climate change. Sam talks about the example of ice cellars that have been used in Point Hope for thousands of years to store foodstuffs – fish, wildlife, and whale – throughout the year. The cellars are buried about 20 feet into the permafrost, which is melting due to higher average temperatures. Without those cellars to provide essential refrigeration and fermentation, the community has to harvest extra fish and wildlife throughout the year because there are no roads leading to the city, so outside supplies come in only by plane or once or twice during the summer by barge. This places additional pressure on the fish and wildlife populations and is an example of a problem that could benefit from an EWN approach, drawing on research and expertise from the Army Corps’ Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory (CRREL).   Similarly, Enda and the NRC have been working in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, an Inuvialuit community very close to sea level on the Beaufort Sea. As Enda relates, “We heard from elders that this particular community has had to relocate three residences just in the past year because of the rapidly eroding coast. So that's a really urgent need.” Enda and his colleagues at the NRC are reimagining what future research in the Arctic might look like and broadening their networks and collaborations, to do research, including with the U.S. Army Corps. A particular area of interest is in understanding the role of sea ice in attenuating or dissipating storm surge. Computer modeling has shown that without sea ice, storm surges may be three times higher, which is a significant problem for communities like Tuktoyaktuk.   A key challenge for researchers is that there is little existing baseline data to establish trends. So, engaging the people of these remote communities and gathering local knowledge is critical. Sam, Enda and their teams are sitting down with elders, hunters, and fishers to understand what they’ve seen and experienced. As Sam adds, “One of the most important things is to make sure that we respond appropriately to what the community truly wants, that we're not coming in and presenting a problem that doesn't need to be fixed or presenting our thoughts on how something should be handled. We are listening to and learning from the community.”   Jeff shares his excitement about the opportunities for incorporating EWN approaches into projects in the far north, paired with the importance of collaborating and sharing information between CRREL and the parallel work being done by Sam and Enda: “Thinking about Engineering With Nature and the natural infrastructure strategies that are appropriate for an environment like this is something very new. I think EWN can make an important contribution – and we will learn a lot in the process.”     Related Links: EWN Website ERDC Website Jeff King at LinkedIn Jeff King at EWN Enda Murphy at LinkedIn Sam Whitin at LinkedIn   Presentation to an NNBF Symposium by Enda on Flood Risk Reduction  NRC’s Ocean Program - Coastal Resilience NRC’s Arctic Program - Increasing the quality of life for Northerners through research NRC’s Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering Research Centre   EA Engineering, Science, and Technology  YouTube video of Sam describing some of his NNBF/EWN work EA’s coastal resilience priority Presentation to SAME Seattle by Sam on Thin Layer Placement   Coastal Zone Canada Community of Practice: Cold Regions Living Shorelines Coastal Zone Canada Conference in June 2021 Sub Themes and Topics of the Coastal Zone Canada Conference

Life is anything but predictable. When designing systems that utilize artificial intelligence, what do you have to account for?  MINDWORKS host, Daniel Serfaty, was also curious so he asked the experts to find out more! Join Daniel as he speaks Dr. William Casebeer, Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Riverside Research Open Innovation Center, and Mr. Chad Weiss, Senior Research Engineer at Aptima.  Listen to the entire interview in The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence with William Casebeer and Chad Weiss.

Language generates mutual intelligibility and understanding. This is paramount for effective communication, if humans do not understand how their AI counterpart think and reason, the team is doomed from the get-go. However, what does this all entail? Join MINDWORKS host, Daniel Serfaty, as he discusses with Dr. William Casebeer, Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Riverside Research Open Innovation Center, and Mr. Chad Weiss, Senior Research Engineer at Aptima. Listen to the entire interview in The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence with William Casebeer and Chad Weiss.

In the premier episode of MINDWORKS, “Meet your new AI coworker – are you ready?”, the MINDWORKS audience was introduced to Charlie, the world’s first AI employee. You heard her speak and you heard her ideas, but was she thinking, or did she find a hidden pattern that is opaque to human eyes? More broadly speaking, is AI learning and thinking? Join MINDWORKS host, Daniel Serfaty, as he discusses with Dr. William Casebeer, Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Riverside Research Open Innovation Center, and Mr. Chad Weiss, Senior Research Engineer at Aptima. Listen to the entire interview in The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence with William Casebeer and Chad Weiss.

Well before we studied the formal principles of engineering and design, we studied ethics. Given that artificial intelligence is becoming more and more advanced each year, is it time that we study the ethics of artificial intelligence? MINDWORKS host, Daniel Serfaty, sits down with Dr. William Casebeer, Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Riverside Research Open Innovation Center, and Mr. Chad Weiss, Senior Research Engineer at Aptima, as they make the case for the study of ethics of artificial intelligence. Listen to the entire interview in The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence with William Casebeer and Chad Weiss

From the Golem of Prague, to Frankenstein’s monster, to HAL and the Terminator, literature and film are full of stories of extraordinarily artificially intelligent beings that initially promise a brighter future but in the end tragically turn against their human masters. Beyond the Hollywood lore, what are really the issues? Why is it important now, at this juncture, to study the ethics of artificial intelligence? No less than the future of work, of war, of transportation, of medicine, of manufacturing, in which we are blending two types of intelligences—artificial and human. Join host Daniel Serfaty as he explores the intersection of technology and philosophy to explore the ethics of artificial intelligence with Dr. William Casebeer, Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Riverside Research Open Innovation Center, and Mr. Chad Weiss, Senior Research Engineer at Aptima, Inc.

This week we are excited to welcome Banjo Obayomi, Senior Research Engineer at Two Six Labs. Banjo chats about using machine learning to identify low latency DDOS attacks and generating data to feed the models. Two Six Website www.twosixlabs.com Blog Post www.twosixlabs.com/magicwand-an-ls…ation-platform/ Github github.com/twosixlabs/magicwand-datatool/ Bio: Banjo is a tenured engineer focused on developing end to end solutions for big data analytic platforms, leveraging AWS technologies and more. He is involved in creating IaC solutions via Ansible, Docker, and Jenkins for build automation and configuration management. He can routinely be found creating infrastructure components needed to store artifacts, monitor clusters and orchestrate deployments to meet the project needs. Banjo is also head operator at Grimoire Blogs an interactive blogging platform that allows you to embed data, graphs, APIs and more without any coding (Think of it as Wordpress for Data Scientists). And lastly, but no less important, Banjo is the host of his own The DataOpsDC Meetup which has showcased amazing talent including illuminating data architects, data engineers, and cloud engineers.

When someone says, "Check under the hood", they clearly mean their engine. After speaking with Greg, I have found a completely new meaning to that phrase. Greg works specifically with engine lubricants and his main goal is to find answers to unsolved questions with the cooperation of scientists and engineers. Greg talks with us on his daily tasks of coordinating teams of dynamic and educated specialists to achieve an end product that is safe and efficient for the engines "under our hoods". 

NEW CAR REGISTRATION FIGURES - SEPTEMBER 2020As we all know, September is a ‘new-plate’ month which traditionally is a higher registration month. There are some surprises, including who is Number 1 of the Top 10! Another interesting point was how close the number was to last year, even though there is the current global situation. To read more, click the SMMT article here.UK EU DEAL BLOW TO MANUFACTURERSFollowing the latest round of negotiations between the UK and the European Union, manufacturers discovered rules about car parts country of origin means those from Turkey and Japan will not be considered British. This matter will also hit electric cars, which were part of a separate request to be considered British even with most parts coming from outside of Britain and the EU. To read more on this, click the BBC News article here. Following this news, Nissan, Toyota and other manufacturers have announced that they will seek compensation for tariffs imposed following conclusion of negotiations. To read more, click the Twitter thread from Pernille Rudlin here.REVIEW INTO ROAD SAFETY AROUND NORTHAMPTONSHIRE US BASEFollowing the tragic death of Harry Dunn, Grant Shapps has announced a review into road safety around 10 US bases in the UK, including RAF Croughton the scene of the collision. The review will start this month. To read more, click the Northamptonshire Times here.DVLA LAUNCHES ONLINE V5C LOG BOOK SERVICEBack in June the DVLA launched an online service to update the V5C logbook, which was such a success that they are introducing a new service that will allow owners to apply for a duplicate logbook online. Again, this should cut waiting times from six weeks to five days. To read more, click the Motoring Research article here.E-SCOOTERS SHOULD BE LEGALISED IN UKParliament’s Transport Committee has called on the Government to legalise the use of scooters on UK roads, within the next 18 months. This would mean private individuals would be able to use a scooter, in the same way they can a bicycle. To read more, click the Sky News article here.EURO NCAP INTRODUCES DRIVER ASSISTANCE TECHNOLOGY SAFETY RATINGAs more technology is legislated for and introduced by manufacturers, assisting drivers, the need has arisen to review the systems and score them. NCAP has introduced the first such grading in Europe for technology such as lane keeping assist, adaptive cruise control, braking and driver monitoring. To read more about the ratings, click the Motoring Research article here.FORD OF BRITAIN BOSS TAKES TEMPORARY LEAVE OF ABSENCE.Andy Barratt, the MD of Ford of Britain, is taking a temporary leave of absence with Lisa Brankin, sales director, stepping into his shoes. To read more, click the Car Dealer article here.LOTUS GAINS GOVERNMENT BACKED FUNDING TO DEVELOP NEW EV PLATFORMLotus has won funding from the Advanced Propulsion Centre, backed by Government funding, after they submitted the winning application for the Advanced Route to Market Demonstrator competition. They will work with their partners to further develop their lightweight electric vehicle architecture, with the help of this funding. To read more, click the Autocar article here.EX-VW BOSS NEW CEO OF PIËCH AUTOMOTIVEMatthias Müller, the ex-boss of Volkswagen, has been named as Chairman of Pïech Automotive, an EV start-up founded by Toni Piëch son of the late Ferdinand Piëch. To read more, click the Autocar article here._____________________________________________If you like what we do, on this show, and think it is worth a £1.00, please consider supporting us via Patreon. Here is the link to that CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST——————————————————————————-FORMULA E: NISSAN STARTING NEXT SEASON WITH OLD POWER-TRAINIn order to help teams with costs in transitioning to the new rules for the 2020/21 Season, they can start the new season with the old power-train as long as they introduce it before the first European round. Nissan are not expected to be alone in this approach, thanks to the pandemic hampering testing and development. To read more, click The Race article here.FORMULA E: CALENDAR STRUGGLES ONGOINGSam Smith has written a very interesting piece for The Race, about the struggles that are ongoing for Formula E to run their first World Championship season. The coronavirus pandemic has meant contingency plans have to be put in place if the ratified locations cannot host the rounds, as hoped. The article gives is all a little peak at the herculean efforts that are underway to make sure the series takes place, is viable to all participating and attractive to fans and sponsors alike. To read through the struggles, click the link here.WRC HYBRID DEADLINES PASSES WITHOUT HYUNDAI SIGNATUREThe FIA imposed deadline, of the end of September, for all parties to be signed up to the new hybrid technology agreement has been and gone, without full agreement from all the teams. Hyundai are still discussing various matters with WRC and the provider Compact Dynamics. Whilst Toyota and Ford have agreed, there is real fear Hyundai could just walk away. To read more about this incredibly complicated matter, click the DirtFish article here.A reminder, WRC Sardinia is taking place this week. Always an exciting event, it will be interesting to see what difference an October date makes.MISSION MOTORSPORT RACE OF REMEMBRANCE - #YOURROR CAMPAIGNMission Motorsport, an organisation founded on the back of overcoming challenges, has decided they will not let the cancellation of this year’s event mean that it passes without marking the weekend. They are asking all supporters of the event to do something to help raise funds and commemorate the weekend. To find out more, click the Mission Motorsport article here. To see James Cameron’s video announcing the campaign, click the Tweet here.LUNCHTIME READ: LONE RIDER REVIEWThe Lunchtime Read is a book review, from Jalopnik’s Elizabeth Blackstock, talking about the solo adventures of Elspeth Beard who decided to ride a BMW motorbike around the world, starting in 1982. The story is so amazing that the chaps will be adding it to their buying list immediately. To read more, click the link here.LIST OF THE WEEK: MOST EXTRAVAGANT OPTIONAL EXTRAS YOU CAN BUYDuring these times we need some ridiculousness, well look no further than what you can spec for a car, if you so wish and have the oodles of cash required. To run through the list, click the Autocar article here. Don’t forget to tweet the chaps what choice you would make!AND FINALLY: LEGO CRASH TESTINGBecky Miller, a Senior Research Engineer at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) organisation, decided to fill some of the tedious lockdown hours with a return to her childhood studies, crash testing Lego cars. Watch the video of this wonderful work by clicking the Tweet here.AND FINALLY FINALLY: ZOOM ZOOMERS CALLAlan takes part in a gathering of folks from the motoring world, on a Monday night, run by Damien Cross. If you would like to see last Monday’s meet up please click the YouTube link here.

This episode will focus on data-driven agriculture and its potential to transform the ecosystem. With an extra 2.5bn of the population to feed by 2050, and grappling with increasing land degradation and water stress, set in the context of the climate challenge, we explore how data-driven agriculture can become more efficient whilst being better for environment and the economy. Data for and from farmers has become a growth area, driving expectations and investments in big data, blockchain, technology and precision agriculture. With new sources of information such as satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles and mobile weather stations providing mountains of data, how can farmers get value from this mass of intelligence? And what are the challenges to implementation? About our panel Calum Murray, Head of Agriculture and Food, Innovate UK Calum is currently Head of Agriculture and Food at Innovate UK (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk) . He has led substantial publicly funded programmes for applied research in the agrifood sector and sat on the X Whitehall Group that delivered the 2013 AgriTech Strategy. He was an Interim Challenge Director during 2018 jointly responsible for establishing the £90m Industrial Strategy Transforming Food Production Challenge. Calum currently sits on Defra’s external R&D panel, and the Agricultural Productivity Working Group within the Food and Drink Sector Council structure. Calum studied agriculture at Aberdeen University, started his career with the Ministry of Agriculture 1982 (ADAS) moving to David Anderson & Co in ‘85/86 then back north to SRUC in 1989. In 1995 he was appointed by Bank of Scotland as national agricultural specialist. Calum joined Innovate UK in Feb 2010. Dr Louise Sutherland, Director, Ceres Agri-Tech Louise Sutherland is Director of the Ceres (https://www.ceresagritech.org/) Agri-Tech Knowledge Exchange Partnership, a joint collaboration between five world-leading UK universities and three of the country’s top agricultural research institutes. Ceres provides funding and expertise to accelerate the commercialisation of agri-tech research coming out of its partner universities, ensuring that high-quality agricultural innovation is translated from lab to field. Louise’s extensive agri-tech credentials include chairing the Raspberry Breeding Consortium (a joint research and industry partnership) at James Hutton Ltd., as well as previously chairing both the AHDB Soft Fruit Research Panel and the Red Tractor Fresh Produce Scheme. Louise has also been a member of the AHDB Horticulture Board and the Assured Food Standards Board. She has over a decade’s experience working at Marks & Spencer, holding a variety of technical and commercial roles across their food business. Louise has a PhD in Plant Pathology from the University of Reading and worked on novel biocontrol systems for tree diseases during her time as a researcher at the Forestry Commission. Find Ceres Agri-Tech on social media: LinkedIn: @ceresagritech (https://www.linkedin.com/company/ceresagritech/) Twitter: @AgritechCeres (https://twitter.com/AgritechCeres) Dave Ross, Chief Executive Officer, Agri-EPI Centre Ltd Dave Ross (BSc Hons, PDip, AMIMechE, AIAgrE, FRAgS) is Chief Executive Officer of Agri-EPI Centre Ltd (https://agri-epicentre.com/) , one of the four UK Centres of Agricultural Innovation, with a specific focus on Precision technologies and engineered solutions. He is responsible for leading development of the Centre, both nationally and internationally. A trained engineer, Dave started his career in the defence technology sector, designing electro-optic systems. He moved to agricultural engineering and technology in 1990, taking the opportunity to move back to his roots (having been brought up on a mixed/dairy farm). He worked for more than 25 work as a Senior Research Engineer with Scotland’s Rural College, originally focusing on systems for crop monitoring and handling and post-harvest quality. More recently he has focused on livestock-related technologies. He has been involved in the research and development of several novel and patented developments across the agricultural production sectors. Some of these have been fully commercialised, and he has assisted with aligned spin-out and new company formations. Emily Norton, Head of Rural Research, Savills Emily heads up the Savills UK Limited Rural Research (https://www.savills.co.uk/services/research/rural-research-consultancy.aspx) team, guiding the creation of insight and analysis into rural policy, data and benchmarking for Savills and its clients across the U.K. She consults for clients and government on rural policy and corporate strategy, with a particular focus on rural asset investment and strategic sustainability and climate response. Emily is a director of the Oxford Farming Conference for 2021-2023 and a Nuffield Scholar 2018.

Subscribe: iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, and RSS.In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Joel Grus, Principal Engineer at the Capital Group. He previously served as a Senior Research Engineer at the Allen Institute for AI, where he was a core engineer on AllenNLP, a PyTorch-based library for NLP research. Joel is also the author of one of the most widely read books in data science – Data Science from Scratch. Joel has a new book which I recommend highly:  Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.Subscribe to The Gradient Flow Newsletter.

This season, we’ve talked about alternative energy sources that don’t emit carbon dioxide -- but what if there was a way to continue using fossil fuels for energy without emitting CO2 into the atmosphere? In this episode of TILclimate (Today I Learned Climate), Dr. Howard Herzog and Professor Brad Hager sit down with host Laur Hesse Fisher to talk about capturing, using, and storing carbon emissions, and how it fits into a clean energy future.Howard Herzog is a Senior Research Engineer in the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), where he has researched combating greenhouse gas emissions for over 30 years. He was also a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage and a co-author on the MIT Future of Coal Study.Brad Hager is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth Sciences in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). He is also the co-director of the MIT Energy Initiative’s Low Carbon Energy Center on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage.Season two of TILclimate focuses on our global energy system, its relationship to climate change, and what our options are for keeping the lights on while creating a clean energy future. We're partnering with the MIT Energy Initiative, which will air longer interviews with each guest to take a deeper dive into these topics.CreditsLaur Hesse Fisher, Host and ProducerDavid Lishansky, Editor and ProducerJessie Hendricks, Graduate Student WriterAaron Krol, Contributing WriterRuby Wincele, Student Production AssistantCecilia Bolon, Student Production AssistantSkyler Jones, Student Production AssistantMusic by Blue Dot SessionsArtwork by Aaron Krol Produced by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A nossa primeira convidada chama-se Catarina Silva, é Senior Research Engineer na Unbabel e antiga aluna de MEEC. Falámos um pouco sobre o seu percurso, a maneira como um desafio nas JEEC a levou a dar oportunidade a uma carreira diferente da que imaginara e o seu dia a dia numa das startups mais promissoras do país. Intro/Outro: "Prayers" by Admiral Bob featuring emmrodriguez (http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/61151) is licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ )

In this episode, Terry Rush, Director of Sales at Bright Computing spends time with Simula’s Research Director for Software Engineering and HPC, Professor Are Magnus Bruaset, and Senior Research Engineer at Simula, Tore Heide Larsen. Together they discuss the reasons that Simula chose to deploy Bright technology and the role that it plays in the Simula HPC architecture.

We discuss the Oculus Go price cut, Pimax customer support situation, Rift stuttering issues, and the Vive Pro price cut.This week's Hot Topic was: with Sony skipping E3 again, what does 2020 have in store for PlayStation VR?Our Special Guest this week was Diane Hosfelt, Senior Research Engineer at Mozilla. Hosfelt is security and privacy lead for mixed reality, identifying emerging threats and potential mitigations to create a better immersive web.

Recently, there has been an immense boom around startups working in the field of music and artificial intelligence. We see companies and individuals embracing the new technology in various fields of music production, composing, performing to music recognition. But how new is this technology really? In this episode Helen Meyer talks with Dr Leigh Smith, Senior Research Engineer at Landr, who has been working in the field of music and AI for more than 20 years now. He gives us a wrap up about how it all started, what the state of the art is and what he thinks the future may bring. Want to dive deeper? Here are some useful links: ISMIR - International Society for Music Information Retrieval https://www.ismir.net ISMIR 2019 - International Symposium for Music Information Retrieval 2019 https://ismir2019.ismir.net GANs - ISMIR tutorial on Generating Music with Generative Adversarial Networks https://salu133445.github.io/ismir2019tutorial WiMIR - Women in Music Information Retrieval website https://wimir.wordpress.com/ Portrait XO - artist using neural networks for generating an album of vocal processing https://www.reeperbahnfestival.com/en/speaker/portrait-xo-portrait-xo Aaron Burnett & The Big Machine "The Prototype” https://open.spotify.com/track/12zlZ8URX0gm8rxniduLUi?si=egX_cDCpRKGQvcN_LHODJg from the album “Anomaly" https://www.discogs.com/Aaron-Burnett-The-Big-Machine-Anomaly/release/13032173

Dr. Larry Heck is CEO of Viv Labs and a Senior Vice President at Samsung. In that role, he oversees all things Bixby. Prior to his work with Bixby, Larry served as head of Samsung's Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Center. He has a deep background and distinguished career in both voice and AI technologies. Prior to Samsung, he was a Research Director at Google leading the Deep Dialogue project. Earlier in his career, he was chief scientist for Microsoft Speech, a Vice President of R&D at Nuance, and a Senior Research Engineer at SRI International. Larry earned his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech and his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. 

Today's guest is Georg Hildebrand, Senior Research Engineer at Zalando in Berlin. Georg has several years of experience in data science and scientific computing and is currently building the next generation of Zalando's machine learning platform. The goal is to enable and democratize machine learning for almost all employees and business processes. Zalando believes that their integration of fashion, operations and online technology gives them the capability to deliver a compelling value proposition to both customers and fashion brand partners. Zalando’s shops attract more than 300 million visits per month with over 28 million active customers in 17 markets across Europe. In the episode, Georg will tell you about: Zalando’s work in creating infrastructure for machine learning Advice on how to get started with data science Prioritising the workload at Zalando Helping coach and train data science professionals Challenges of applying AI and Machine Learning His work within High-Performance Computing

Today on the Getting Smart Podcast, the team is speaking with Paul Johnson, the 17th President of the Colorado School of Mines. Paul is also a global leader in education and research in engineering and science. He’s set out to solve the world’s challenges related to earth, energy, and the environment!   Johnson began his career at Shell Development Company in Houston, working as a Senior Research Engineer on environmental projects over six years. After that (and prior to Mines) he taught and served as the Dean at Arizona State University for 20-plus years.   In today’s discussion with Tom, Johnson describes dramatic improvements in student learning experiences across the campus — including more interactive and project-based learning, as well as having more students engaged in the issues of ethics and social responsibility.   Key Takeaways: [:15] About today’s episode. [1:04] Tom welcomes Paul to the podcast! [1:11] Paul speaks about his early education and why he decided to go to UC Davis for his B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering. [3:30] What initially attracted Paul to work at Shell? [4:43] What kind of problems did Paul work on at Shell? [6:04] Did Paul get any exposure to Shell’s scenario planning (which it became widely known for)? [6:49] What drove Paul’s career shift back to academia? [7:50] What is it like to go to school today — and particularly at Mines? [9:46] Who goes to school now? How has the student body changed over the years? [11:23] About the complex issues and systems Mines’s graduates are getting into, and how Mines prepares them for that. [15:45] Innovation often triggers a set of ethical issues or tough community choices. What role do engineers play in helping to inform the public dialogue about innovation? [17:57] 40 years ago, there wasn’t a lot of focus on humanities or communication abilities in the curriculum — how has that changed today? [19:14] What is Mines’s perspective on the subject of sustainability? [21:33] What developments or coming innovations is Paul most excited about? [25:35] What did Paul learn from Michael Crow at ASU? [26:37] What does it mean to Paul that Mines is a part of the KEEN network? [31:09] Having been with Mines for four years now, what is Paul particularly proud of that he has accomplished with the team so far?   Mentioned in This Episode: Paul Johnson (LinkedIn) Colorado School of Mines Shell Development Company Arizona State University Michael Crow from ASU KEEN   Want to Learn More? Check out Episode 191 on Northeastern University and how they’re transforming educator preparation. For more about computing across the curriculum, listen to Episode 190 with Dr. Amon Millner from Olin College.   Get Involved: Check out the blog at GettingSmart.com. Find the Getting Smart Podcast on iTunes, leave a review and subscribe.   Is There Somebody You’ve Been Wanting to Learn From or a Topic You’d Like Covered? To get in contact: Email Editor@GettingSmart.com and include ‘Podcast’ in the subject line. The Getting Smart team will be sure to add them to their list!  

Howard Herzog, Senior Research Engineer at the MIT Energy Initiative, discusses his new book Carbon Capture, a concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage. Read the book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/carbon-capture 3 questions with Herzog: https://energy.mit.edu/news/3q-howard-j-herzog-discusses-the-state-of-carbon-capture Transcript: https://energy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018-09-30-Carbon-Capture-Talk-Transcript.pdf Sign up for notifications of new episodes: https://energy.mit.edu/podcast#signup

In this interview, Audrow Nash speaks with Sangin Park, Senior Research Engineer at Hyundai, about exoskeletons. Park describes three exoskeleton prototypes: one for helping workers reduce back pain, one for assisting a person with paraplegia, and an exoskeleton for soldiers. Park discusses the sensors and actuators of each exoskeleton, as well as Hyundai's exoskeleton ambitions.

Dr James Luckring, Senior Research Engineer, NASA Langley Research Centre delivers the 2017 Lanchester Named Lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Robots as Partners with Heather Kerrick, Senior Research Engineer, Applied Research Lab, Office of the CTO at Autodesk: How might humans and robots work together to get more done than either could get done on their own?

Rob and Jason are joined by Jonathan Beard to discuss Stream Processing and the C++ Raft Library.   Jonathan Beard received a BS (Biology) and BA (International Studies) in 2005 from the Louisiana State University, MS (Bioinformatics) in 2010 from The Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. Jonathan served as a U.S. Army Officer through 2010 where he served in roles ranging from medical administrator to acting director of the medical informatics department for the U.S. Army in Europe. Jonathan's research interests include online modeling, stream parallel systems, streaming architectures, compute near data, and massively parallel processing. He is currently a Senior Research Engineer with ARM Research in Austin, Texas. News Clion 2016.1 Q & A: Bjarne Stroustrup previews C+17 Sub-processing with Modern C++ Jonathan Beard @jonathan_beard Jonathan Beard's website Jonathan Beard on GitHub Links RaftLib C++Now - Come Stream with Me: build performant, simple, parallel applications in C++ using RaftLib  

Lee Schipper discusses better and more realistic fuel economy options in the US and other industrialized nations. He is a Senior Research Engineer at the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency at Stanford University. (January 7, 2009)

Currently many initiatives are being proposed for identity management, such as OpenID, SAML, CardSpace/Information Cards, and OAuth, as its importance is becoming apparent. Identity management is as an integral part of service infrastructures to make identity available to services across organizations in a secure and privacy protected manner. The identity data are crucial to successfully providing the privileged and personalized experiences for legitimate users of services. Also it is important that the users should have strong control over their identity data to foster a socially responsible service industry. This talk will give an overview of trends in identity management, and illustrate best practices and lessons learned in real settings using case studies. The talk will also highlight standard harmonization (SAML/Liberty, OpenID, CardSpace/Information Cards, etc.) and explore the future research agenda (e.g., mobile applications). About the speaker: Kenji Takahashi is a Senior Research Engineer, Supervisor at NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories in Tokyo, Japan. He has been working in the IT and communication industry for more than 20 years. Dr. Takahashi was a visiting scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology and led several business incubation projects at NTT MCL in Palo Alto. Currently Dr. Takahashi is leading R&D projects for identity management for next generation networks. His research interests are in the interdisciplinary areas of security, identity, and usability. He is also very active in technical standardization, such as Liberty Alliance. Dr. Takahashi has given many talks and tutorials at international conferences. He is a co-chair of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Digital Identity Management (http://www2.pflab.ecl.ntt.co.jp/dim2008/index.html)

Almost every possible method and technique regarding Windows exploitation has been discussed in depth. Surprisingly, a topic that has rarely been touched on publicly is the remote exploitation of Win32 kernel vulnerabilities; a number of kernel vulnerabilities have been published, yet no exploit code has surfaced in the public arena. I predict we will see more kernel vulnerabilities in the future, as more core networking components are being implemented at the driver level. In this presentation I will walk through the remote exploitation of a kernel level vulnerability. A number of payloads will be discussed and demonstrated, and I will explain how to overcome the various obstacles that arise when attempting to exploit ring 0 vulnerabilities. As a final demonstration, we will say goodnight to the Windows OS entirely. Barnaby Jack is a Senior Research Engineer at eEye Digital Security. His role at eEye involves developing internal technologies, malicious code analysis, vulnerability research-and applying this research to the eEye product line. His main areas of interest include reverse engineering and operating system internals. He has been credited with the discovery of numerous security vulnerabilities, and has published multipl

Almost every possible method and technique regarding Windows exploitation has been discussed in depth. Surprisingly, a topic that has rarely been touched on publicly is the remote exploitation of Win32 kernel vulnerabilities; a number of kernel vulnerabilities have been published, yet no exploit code has surfaced in the public arena. I predict we will see more kernel vulnerabilities in the future, as more core networking components are being implemented at the driver level. In this presentation I will walk through the remote exploitation of a kernel level vulnerability. A number of payloads will be discussed and demonstrated, and I will explain how to overcome the various obstacles that arise when attempting to exploit ring 0 vulnerabilities. As a final demonstration, we will say goodnight to the Windows OS entirely. Barnaby Jack is a Senior Research Engineer at eEye Digital Security. His role at eEye involves developing internal technologies, malicious code analysis, vulnerability research-and applying this research to the eEye product line. His main areas of interest include reverse engineering and operating system internals. He has been credited with the discovery of numerous security vulnerabilities, and has published multipl