Interview with Maithra Raghu, Sr Research Scientist at Google Brain

Maithra Raghu is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Cornell University and a Research Scientist at Google Brain. Her research interests are in developing principled tools to empirically study the representational properties of deep neural networks, and apply these insights to deep learning applications in healthcare. She was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science and a Rising Star in EECS.


Questions discussed include:
- You’re currently at Google Brain and your work there sounds really interesting, but before we get stuck into that, can you give me an overview of your background. What came first, healthcare or AI and deep learning?
- Going back to Google Brain, can you tell us a bit more about your current work
- In your presentation, you spoke about direct uncertainty prediction - can you explain what this is and how you’re applying it to healthcare?
- What challenges are you currently facing in predicting disagreement at Google Brain?
- What recent advances in AI have allowed you to make progress in your work?
- What other areas of healthcare (or other industries entirely) can benefit from your current research?
- How are you using AI for Good?
- Have you faced any challenges being a woman working in AI?
- What’s next for you in your work?
- Where can we keep up to date with you - do you have Twitter or a website?