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Previously I was a <a class="reference external" href="https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/data-science/">Data Science Initiative</a> Postdoc at Brown University affiliated to the Division of Applied Mathematics and hosted by Professor Bjorn Sandstede and I completed a <a class="reference external" href="https://diversity.berkeley.edu/programs-services/postdoctoral/about-cpfp">Chancellor鈥檚 Postdoctoral Fellow</a> in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley with faculty mentor Professor <a class="reference external" href="https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/">Mike Jordan</a>. I completed a BS in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering in 2011 a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2016 advised by <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ece.neu.edu/fac-ece/jdy/">Jennifer Dy</a> both at Northeastern University. My graduate studies were supported by a Draper Laboratory Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. My other professional activities include teaching computational data analysis skills to researchers with The Carpentries and serving as the treasurer emeritus on the Women in Machine Learning, Inc Senior Advisory Council.</p> <div class="section" id="news"> <h2>News<a class="headerlink" href="#news" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h2> <p>See the <a class="reference internal" href="news/"><span class="doc std std-doc">news page</span></a> for a more complete list.</p> <ul class="postlist-style-none postlist simple"> <li class="ablog-post"><p class="ablog-post-title">2024-03-04 : <a class="reference internal" href="news/2024-03-04-mc-wids/">I gave a keynote at Middlebury College Women in Data Science conference</a></p></li> <li class="ablog-post"><p class="ablog-post-title">2024-01-23 : <a class="reference internal" href="news/2024-01-23-ugsp24/">Welcome to new undergraduates Lani, Noah, Trevor, and Rohan</a></p></li> <li class="ablog-post"><p class="ablog-post-title">2024-01-18 : <a class="reference internal" href="news/2024-01-18-aisummit/">I presented on What is AI at the Academic Summit for URI Faculty</a></p></li> <li class="ablog-post"><p class="ablog-post-title">2023-09-10 : <a class="reference internal" href="news/2023-09-10-ugfa23/">Welcome to new Undergraduate Researchers Kyle and Brendan</a></p></li> <li class="ablog-post"><p class="ablog-post-title">2023-07-31 : <a class="reference internal" href="news/2023-07-31-tdssp23/">I鈥檓 teaching CS for Talent Development Summer Success Program</a></p></li> </ul>  <div class="toctree-wrapper compound"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="section"> </div> </article>   <footer class="bd-footer-article"> <div class="footer-article-items footer-article__inner"> <div class="footer-article-item"> <div class="prev-next-area"> <a class="right-next" href="research/" title="next page"> <div class="prev-next-info"> <p class="prev-next-subtitle">next</p> <p class="prev-next-title">Research</p> </div> <i class="fa-solid fa-angle-right"></i> </a> </div></div> </div> </footer> </div> <div class="bd-sidebar-secondary bd-toc"><div class="sidebar-secondary-items sidebar-secondary__inner"> <div class="sidebar-secondary-item"> <div class="page-toc tocsection onthispage"> <i class="fa-solid fa-list"></i> On this page </div> <nav class="bd-toc-nav page-toc"> <ul class="visible nav section-nav flex-column"> <li class="toc-h2 nav-item toc-entry"><a class="reference internal nav-link" href="#news">News</a></li> </ul> </nav></div> <div class="sidebar-secondary-item"> <div class="tocsection sourcelink"> <a href="_sources/index.md.txt"> <i class="fa-solid fa-file-lines"></i> Show Source </a> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> <footer class="bd-footer-content"> </footer> </main> </div> </div>  <script src="_static/scripts/bootstrap.js?digest=e353d410970836974a52"></script> <script src="_static/scripts/pydata-sphinx-theme.js?digest=e353d410970836974a52"></script> <footer class="bd-footer"> <div class="bd-footer__inner bd-page-width"> <div class="footer-items__start"> <div class="footer-item"> <p class="copyright"> 漏 Copyright 2024, Sarah M Brown. <br/> </p> </div> <div class="footer-item"> <p class="sphinx-version"> Created using <a href="https://www.sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 5.3.0. <br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="footer-items__end"> <div class="footer-item"><p class="theme-version"> Built with the <a href="https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html">PyData Sphinx Theme</a> 0.13.3. </p></div> </div> </div> </footer> </body> </html>

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