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Lecture Date: 14 Apr
BSc, BCS University of Waterloo
Software Developer at Google
Leonard Zgrablic is a Software Engineer at Google, working on the
Stadia Controller
firmware. Previously he held Software Engineering positions at
Arista Networks,
Clearpath, and Blackberry.
Zgrablic also had a successful career as an actor, director, and
writer, having won
multiple awards. He was in the cast of Stiffs on the Green (2011),
The Cult (2012),
and was listed as one of the lead stars in Catalyst (2015)
Lecture Date: 12 May
PhD LMU Munich (Germany)
Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Google
Dr. Ahmed Omran is an Artificial Intelligence resident at
Google.
Dr. Omran previously worked at Harvard University in the Physics
Department, and as
a Research Consultant for QuEra Computing in Boston. His PhD is from
LMU Munich
where he also worked at the Max Planck Institute of Quanum Optics.
He also holds
Bachelor's and Master's degrees from TU Munich.
Dr. Omran has 3 publications in Nature, 3 publications in Science,
and 5
publications in Physical Review Letters as of January 2021 and 100%
all of his
publications prior to 2020 have over 100 citations. His paper with
Mikhail Lukin
involving an in-house 51-qubit programmable quantum computer reached
1000 citations
on Google Scholar after 3 years.
Contact:
Lecture Date: 16 Jun
MSc Oxford University (UK)
Managing Director at The Social Innovation Partnership
Genevieve Laurier is the Managing Director at The Social Innovation
Partnership,
having previously been Director of Delivery and Impact, Head of
Delivery and Impact,
and Acting Head of Impact and Evaluation.
Laurier was also previously the President of Oxford Hub, which had
over 5000
individual members and 80 institutional members.
Laurier holds an MSc from Oxford University where she wrote a thesis
about sexual
minority topics in the sex education at schools, and a bachelor's
degree in PPE,
also at Oxford University.
Contact:
Lecture Date: 14 Apr
BSc, BCS University of Waterloo
Software Developer at Google
Leonard Zgrablic is a Software Engineer at Google, working on the
Stadia Controller
firmware. Previously he held Software Engineering positions at
Arista Networks,
Clearpath, and Blackberry.
Zgrablic also had a successful career as an actor, director, and
writer, having won
multiple awards. He was in the cast of Stiffs on the Green (2011),
The Cult (2012),
and was listed as one of the lead stars in Catalyst (2015)
Lecture Date: 12 May
PhD LMU Munich (Germany)
Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Google
Dr. Ahmed Omran is an Artificial Intelligence resident at
Google.
Dr. Omran previously worked at Harvard University in the Physics
Department, and as
a Research Consultant for QuEra Computing in Boston. His PhD is from
LMU Munich
where he also worked at the Max Planck Institute of Quanum Optics.
He also holds
Bachelor's and Master's degrees from TU Munich.
Dr. Omran has 3 publications in Nature, 3 publications in Science,
and 5
publications in Physical Review Letters as of January 2021 and 100%
all of his
publications prior to 2020 have over 100 citations. His paper with
Mikhail Lukin
involving an in-house 51-qubit programmable quantum computer reached
1000 citations
on Google Scholar after 3 years.
Contact:
Lecture Date: 16 Jun
MSc Oxford University (UK)
Managing Director at The Social Innovation Partnership
Genevieve Laurier is the Managing Director at The Social Innovation
Partnership,
having previously been Director of Delivery and Impact, Head of
Delivery and Impact,
and Acting Head of Impact and Evaluation.
Laurier was also previously the President of Oxford Hub, which had
over 5000
individual members and 80 institutional members.
Laurier holds an MSc from Oxford University where she wrote a thesis
about sexual
minority topics in the sex education at schools, and a bachelor's
degree in PPE,
also at Oxford University.
Past Lectures
Lecture Date: 10 Feb
MSc Stanford University (USA)
Director of Engineering at Instagram
Thomas Dimson was one of the first 40 employees at Instagram, back in 2013 when the app
was still new. He is the original author of "the algorithm" at Instagram, and was the
brain behind how feeds and stories work. He invented Hyperlapse, which is the app that
was used for the filming of the music video for "Centuries" by Fall Out Boy. He also
invented Instagram products such as stories polling sticker, and emogineering. In 2015
he was named one of the top 10 most creative people in business worldwide, and in 2018
he was promoted from Principal Engineer to Director of Engineering at Instagram.
Dimson earned his MSc in CS from Stanford University, where he specialized in Artificial
Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Data Mining. Prior to that he earned a
triple-degree in Applied Math, Computer Science, and Pure Math at University of
Waterloo, and worked at Amazon, Bloomberg L.P. and the Perimeter Institute for
Theoretical Physics.
Dimson has over 30 US patents listed on Google Scholar as of January 2021, and several
of his publications and patents have acquired an unusually high number of citations.
Contact:
Lecture Date: 24 Feb
BSc University of Toronto
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Evan Browning joined the virtual reality team at Facebook in July
2020, after 5
years as a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.
Browning completed his computer science degree at University of
Toronto, where he
also worked as a researcher, and held a job as a GIS Analyst at
Ontario's Ministry
of Natural Resources.
Lecture Date: 10 Mar
PhD Cambridge University (UK)
Professor at Simon Fraser University
Dr. Brianne Kent is a professor at Simon Fraser University, where
she runs the
Translational Neuroscience Lab and studies how disprupted sleep can
contribute to
memory loss in people with Alzheimer's patients. She currently sits
on the Governing
Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Dr. Kent was previously a research fellow at Harvard Medical School,
and held a
postdoctoral position at UBC funded by three simultaneous
fellowships including the
extremely prestigious Banting Fellowship. She completed her PhD in
neuroscience from
Cambridge University where she was a Gates Scholar, and also holds
degrees from Yale
University and Simone Fraser University.
Dr. Kent has published many papers in scientific journals, and as of
January 2021
has a Google Scholar h-index of 20.
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