#11 - Parker Ziegler: Cartography, HCI, PL, and doing a PhD after industry
Parker is a 3rd year PhD student in Sarah Chasin's lab at Berkeley. His research focuses on the intersection of programming languages (PL), human-computer interaction (HCI), data visualization, and ge...
14 Maalis 202444min
#10 - Chung Min Kim: NeRF, 3D Vision, and Reasons to do a PhD
A conversation with Chung Min Kim. Chung Min is a 2nd year PhD student at UC Berkeley working with Ken Goldberg and Angjoo Kanazawa on 3D computer vision and robotics. Socials: twitter: https://twitt...
9 Maalis 20241h 37min
#9 - Ale Escontrela: Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, and Switching Focus Areas
A conversation with Ale Escontrela. Ale is a 3rd year PhD student at UC Berkeley working on robotics and reinforcement learning. Socials: website: https://escontrela.me
26 Helmi 20241h 7min
#8 - Samyu Yagati: Security Research, Art, MIT, and Growing Up in the Bay Area
A conversation with Samyu Yagati. Samyu is a PhD student in the Berkeley Sky Lab studying systems and security. She is also an excellent fingernail artist. Samyu's socials: https://people.eecs.berkel...
17 Helmi 20241h 17min
#6 - Ajay Rayasam: The World of Venture Capital and Research Startups
A conversation with Ajay Rayasam. Ajay is a venture capitalist working at Osage University Partners. Ajay's socials: twitter: https://twitter.com/ajayoup
9 Helmi 202450min
#7 - Tianjun Zhang: building LLM's that connect to the real world, gossiping about advisors, and pivoting research directions
Tianjun Zhang is a 6th year PhD student at UC Berkeley working on RL, LLMs, and other buzzwords related to ML hype. He also has six guinea pigs and laughs every 45 seconds. Socials: website: https://...
7 Helmi 20241h 14min
#5 - Sam Arch: Databases, Grad Student Life, Carnegie Mellon, and Datalog
A conversation with Sam Arch. Sam is a 2nd year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon working at the intersection of databases and programming languages. Sam's socials: website: https://samarch.xyz/ twitter...
26 Tammi 202458min
#3 - Jean-Luc Watson: Embedded Systems, the terror of graduation, and the grad student strike
Jean-Luc is a 6th year PhD student at Berkeley working at the intersection of security and embedded systems, and in particular, in bringing usable cryptographic systems to constrained platforms. He wa...
15 Tammi 20241h 26min
