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Linguist Works on Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses
Name: Alice Shen (she/her) PhD: Linguistics, University of California Berkeley, 2020 What was your main area of research? I studied how...
Apr 162 min read
Science Business Analyst Tackles Cross-Functional Projects
Name: Hannah Dear (she/her) PhD: Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 2024 What was your main area of research? I...
Apr 154 min read
Computational Biologist Gets to Work with a Variety of Data
Name: Daren Card (he/him) PhD: Biology, University of Texas - Arlington, 2018 What was your main area of research? I am an evolutionary...
Apr 153 min read
Consultant Began Career Prep in His 2nd Year
Name: Tyler Ogorek (he/him) PhD: Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2024 What was your main area of research? My PhD work...
Apr 152 min read
Senior Scientist Encourages You to Start the Job Search Early
Name: Pietro Cocchiara (he/him) PhD: Molecular Pharmacology, University of Glasgow, 2024 What was your main area of research? My area of...
Apr 142 min read
CEO Says to Be a Decent Human + Take Risks
Name: Daria Chrobok PhD: Plant Physiology, Umeå University, 2018 What was your main area of research? I worked on the physiology of...
Apr 143 min read
Senior Associate Left Academia After 6+ Years
Name: Gabrielle Filip-Crawford (she/her) PhD: Social Psychology, Arizona State University, 2015 What was your main area of research? My...
Apr 143 min read
Immigration & IP Lawyer Says to Go For It
Name: Melih Okan (he/him) PhD: Physics, MIT, 2018 What was your main area of research? I studied experimental atomic physics. My PhD...
Apr 143 min read
Business Intelligence Developer Builds Data Models
Name: Eric James Stephens (he/him) PhD: Rhetoric, Communication, and Information Design, Clemson University, 2018 What was your main area...
Apr 141 min read
Ethnomusicologist Took a Nonlinear Path to Her Current Role
Name: Meryl Krieger (she/her) PhD: Ethnomusicology, Indiana University Bloomington, 2009 What was your main area of research? My...
Apr 145 min read
Research Data Facilitator Has a Lot of Freedom in His Career
Name: Brad Rittenhouse (he/him) PhD: English, University of Miami, 2017 What was your main area of research? I mostly looked at 19th...
Apr 143 min read
She Pivoted Careers After 20+ Years in Academia!
Name: Amy Lovell (she/her) PhD: Astronomy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1999 What was your main area of research? I carried out...
Apr 143 min read
Scientist Loves Real World Impact and Good Work Hours
Name: Jerry Chien (he/him) PhD: Neuroscience, University of Southern California, 2024 What was your main area of research? I studied how...
Apr 142 min read
Unsupportive Advisor + Layoff Didn't Stop this Manager
Name: Stephanie Silva-Del Toro (she/her) PhD: Immunology, University of Iowa, 2021 What was your main area of research? Neutrophils are...
Apr 144 min read
Director of Research Worked at the Company in Grad School
Name: Tricia Thrasher (she/her) PhD: Second Language Acquisition / French, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022 What was...
Apr 142 min read
Communications Project Manager Still Feels Close to Science
Name: Amalia Verzola (she/her) PhD: Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 2009 What was your main area of research? I studied the...
Apr 142 min read
Career Development Coordinator Shares His Secret Weapon
Name: Jevin Lortie (he/him) PhD: Nutrition and Metabolism, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022 What was your main area of research? My...
Apr 142 min read
Director of Community Wanted Something Different
Name: Susanna Harris (she/her) PhD: Microbiology and Immunology, UNC at Chapel Hill, 2020 What was your main area of research? Just like...
Apr 143 min read
Meta Research Scientist Faced Challenges in Grad School
Name: Ronshee Chawla (he/him) PhD: Statistics and Machine Learning, University of Texas at Austin, 2024 What was your main area of...
Apr 145 min read
Consultant for Meta Puts Her PhD Learnings to Work
Name: Chayanika Saxena (she/her) PhD: Geography, National University of Singapore, 2022 What was your main area of research? The...
Apr 142 min read
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