Biography:Janelle Shane
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Janelle Shane is an optics research scientist and artificial intelligence researcher, writer and public speaker. She keeps a popular science blog called AI Weirdness, where she documents various machine learning algorithms, both ones submitted by readers and ones she personally creates. Shane's first book You Look Like A Thing And I Love You: How AI Works And Why It's Making The World A Weirder Place was published in November 2019 covering many of the topics from her AI Weirdness blog for a general audience.
Early life and education
Shane studied electrical engineering at Michigan State University and graduated in 2007.[1] She started out in a research group that worked on genetic algorithms, and then worked with Marcos Dantus on genetic algorithms for femtosecond lasers.[2] She earned her master's degree in physics at the University of St Andrews, where she worked with Kishan Dholakia on pulse shaping and dispersion compensation.[1] In 2008, Shane joined University of California, San Diego as a graduate student, where she worked on ultra-fast nanoscale optics.[1]
Career
Shane works at Boulder Nonlinear Systems, an organisation who are developing holographic optical trapping modules for the International Space Station.[3][4] She is also working on low size, weight and power (SWaP) 3D wind sensor technologies for unmanned aerial vehicles.[4] The optical trapping systems (tweezers) use focused laser beams to trap transparent microparticles, and the holographic optical trapping uses liquid crystal spatial light modulators that can convert a single beam into separate steerable beams.[4] This system allows Shane to position trapped particles in arrays.[4] The technologies include liquid polarisation gratings for airborne Doppler lidar systems.
Shane came across a list of neural network cookbook recipes written by Tom Brewe.[2] AI Weirdness, Shane's blog on Artificial Intelligence, features everyday neural networks and algorithms.[5] Shane writes for Fast Company and O'Reilly Media.[6][7] She has collaborated with CNN, The Guardian , The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times .[2] Shane delivered a talk at TED 2019, where she spoke about the realities of artificial intelligence.[8] She argued that while artificial intelligence is celebrated as a gift to society, in reality it often doesn't live up to the hype.[8][9] Her book You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place was released in November 2019.[10]
Selected publications
- Shane, Janelle C. (2008). "Control of Molecular Fragmentation Using Shaped Femtosecond Pulses". J. Phys. Chem. A 112 (17): 3789–3812. doi:10.1021/jp071691p. PMID 18433144. Bibcode: 2008JPCA..112.3789L.
- Shane, Janelle C. (2010). "Effect of pulse temporal shape on optical trapping and impulse transfer using ultrashort pulsed lasers". Optics Express 18 (7): 7554–7568. doi:10.1364/OE.18.007554. PMID 20389777. Bibcode: 2010OExpr..18.7554S.
- Shane, Janelle C. (2006). "Selective nonlinear optical excitation with pulses shaped by pseudorandom Galois fields". Phys. Rev. A 74 (4): 041805. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.74.041805. Bibcode: 2006PhRvA..74d1805L.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Janelle Shane". http://emerald.ucsd.edu/Members/Janelle.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Feldman, Brian (30 May 2017). "Janelle Shane's Neural Network Keeps Producing Hilarious, Terrifying Creations" (in en). http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/how-this-neural-network-keeps-producing-hilarious-creations.html.
- ↑ "Janelle Shane's schedule for IDEA Week". https://ideaweek2019.sched.com/speaker/jshane1.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "BNS Awarded Multiple NASA Contracts" (in en-US). http://bnonlinear.com/news/bns-awarded-multiple-nasa-contracts.
- ↑ "Janelle Shane | Eyeo Festival" (in en-US). http://eyeofestival.com/2018/speaker/janelle-shane/.
- ↑ "Janelle Shane - O'Reilly Media". https://www.oreilly.com/talent/7d1f8-janelle-shane.
- ↑ "Meet Janelle Shane, one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People 2019" (in en-US). https://www.fastcompany.com/person/janelle-shane.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Shane, Janelle. "Janelle Shane | Speaker | TED" (in en). https://www.ted.com/speakers/janelle_shane.
- ↑ "Play: Notes from Session 9 of TED2019" (in en). 2019-04-18. https://blog.ted.com/play-notes-from-session-9-of-ted2019/.
- ↑ (in en-US) You Look Like a Thing and I Love You. 2019-03-05. ISBN 9781549171529. https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/janelle-shane/you-look-like-a-thing-and-i-love-you/9781549171529/.
External links
- AI Weirdness blog
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