In this episode, we talk to Dr Emma Hodcroft on her research in tracking the evolution of the new coronavirus, SARS-Cov-2, and her journey into computer science and bioinformatics. Emma is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Basel and co-developer for the Nextstrain project. She is an expert in phylogenetics and has previously worked on HIV, plant and fruit fly genetics. Read more about Emma's research: http://emmahodcroft.com and https://twitter.com/firefoxx66
ResearcHers Code has teamed up with Vicki Tipton from KCL Careers to bring you Part 2 of two episodes interviewing women who moved from the academia into the tech industry. Listen to Part 1 -> https://www.researcherscode.com/episode-7 Listen to Part 2 -> https://www.researcherscode.com/episode-8
ResearcHers Code has teamed up with Vicki Tipton from KCL Careers to bring you the first part of two episodes interviewing women who moved from the academia into the tech industry. Join us in the new year for the 2nd part of this conversation. Listen to Part 1 -> https://www.researcherscode.com/episode-7
We chat to Dr Katie Seaborn, a postdoctoral scientist at the RIKEN Centre for Advanced Intelligence Project in Tokyo. Katie is currently researching into how elderly people interact and have conversations with robots that help prevent the onset of dementia. Katie is an expert in designing interactive games and user experience. Growing up, she enjoyed drawing and illustration, but once the internet took off she discovered her love of digital design.
We talk to Dr Ilana Wisby, CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits, a spin-out company from the University of Oxford building and designing quantum computers. Ilana's path to the quantum realm was not exactly linear. As an accomplished pianist and flautist, Ilana had aspirations to study music but decided to study a Physics undergraduate degree with a Minor in Music at Royal Holloway University. She then pursued a PhD in Quantum Physics and subsequently landed herself working in the start-up world.
We interview Dr Kerstin Haase, postdoctoral researcher at the Francis Crick Institute in London, on using computer science to track mutations in cancer genomes.
We interview Dr Chanuki Seresinhe, data scientist at the Alan Turing Institute, specialising in using big online datasets and deep learning to understand how the aesthetics of the environment affects human well-being.
We talk to Professor Marika Taylor, Professor in Theoretical Physics and Head of Applied Mathematics at the University of Southampton, and Research Fellow at the Turing Institute.
Marika talks about her PhD on the theory of black holes at the University of Cambridge with the eminent, late physicist, Professor Stephen Hawking. Her major work focusses on using the holographic principle to explain quantum effects in black holes.
We chat to Dr Raia Hadsell, a senior research scientist working on deep learning at Google DeepMind. After completing an undergraduate degree in religion and philosophy, Raia decided to pursue research in artificial intelligence - similarly intellectually challenging and thought-provoking, but more concrete in method. Since then, she has forged a successful career in artificial intelligence, pushing the boundaries of knowledge in AI navigation and deep learning algorithms.
In this first episode, we speak to Dr Milena Tsvetkova, a computational social scientist and Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics. Milena talks about her research in modelling diversity in society and social interactions online, and the importance of teaching computer science at university.
