Biography:Andrea Frome
Andrea Frome | |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
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| Thesis | Learning Local Distance Functions for Exemplar-Based Object Recognition (2007) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jitendra Malik |
Andrea Frome is an American computer scientist who works in computer vision and machine learning.
Education
Frome attended the University of Mary Washington for her undergraduate work, receiving a BS in environmental science in 1996. After a few years working in environmental consulting, she changed fields to computer science. She received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in Computer Vision and Machine Learning in 2007 under the supervision of Jitendra Malik.[1][2][3]
Career
After her Ph.D., she worked at Google for seven years, where she was involved in developing the AI used to blur out faces and license plates in Google Street View.[4][5][6]
After leaving Google in 2015, she worked for a short time at Nuna Inc., before joining the technology team of the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.[7] At the end of the Clinton campaign, she joined Clarifai as director of research.[8][9] In 2018, she returned to Google to become one of the founding members of a new research laboratory in Ghana.[4][10]
Frome has over 4,000 citations in the fields of computer vision, deep learning, and machine learning.[11]
Activism
In 2019, she co-signed a letter addressed to Amazon regarding its facial analysis software and alleged biases in its implementation and interpretation by police departments, etc.[12]
References
- ↑ "10 questions for a computer vision scientist : Andrea Frome" (in en-US). 2015-04-08. https://kaptur.co/10-questions-for-a-computer-vision-scientist-andrea-frome/.
- ↑ Frome, Andrea (2007). Learning Local Distance Functions for Exemplar-Based Object Recognition (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley.
- ↑ "Ph.D. Dissertations - Jitendra Malik". University of California, Berkeley EECS Department. https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/Dissertations/Faculty/malik.html.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Matthews, Kayla (19 February 2019). "5 women advancing AI industry research". https://bdtechtalks.com/2019/02/19/5-women-advancing-ai-industry-research/. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
- ↑ Frome, Andrea. "Google's LatLong Blog". Google-latlong.blogspot.com. http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/street-view-revisits-manhattan.html. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
- ↑ Mariya Yao. "Meet These Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariyayao/2017/05/18/meet-20-incredible-women-advancing-a-i-research/#3b24356f26f9.
- ↑ Truong, Kevin. "AI startup launches S.F. office with hire of Clinton campaign alum". https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2017/02/clarifai-artificial-intelligence-andrea-frome.html?page=all. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
- ↑ Lynley, Matthew (2 February 2017). "Visual search startup Clarifai beefs up its AI team with a new San Francisco office". https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/visual-search-startup-clarifai-beefs-up-its-ai-team-with-a-new-san-francisco-office/. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
- ↑ Townsend, Tess; Wagner, Kurt (2 February 2017). "This visual recognition startup has poached AI talent from Twitter". Vox Media. https://www.vox.com/2017/2/2/14459626/clarifai-poaches-twitter-machine-learning-cortex.
- ↑ Andrea Frome on LinkedIn
- ↑ Andrea Frome publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ↑ Metz, Cade; Singer, Natasha (3 April 2019). "A.I. Experts Question Amazon's Facial-Recognition Technology". https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/technology/amazon-facial-recognition-technology.html. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
External links
- Andrea Frome publications indexed by Google Scholar
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