Andrea Frome

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Andrea Frome
Alma mater
  • University of Mary Washington (BS)
  • University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Institutions Google
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.

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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 PhD, 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 Hillary Clinton's 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]

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References

  1. "10 questions for a computer vision scientist : Andrea Frome". Kaptur. April 8, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  2. Frome, Andrea (2007). Learning Local Distance Functions for Exemplar-Based Object Recognition (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley.
  3. "Ph.D. Dissertations - Jitendra Malik". University of California, Berkeley EECS Department. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  4. 1 2 Matthews, Kayla (February 19, 2019). "5 women advancing AI industry research". TechTalks. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  5. Frome, Andrea. "Google's LatLong Blog". Google-latlong.blogspot.com. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  6. Mariya Yao. "Meet These Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research". Forbes. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  7. Truong, Kevin. "AI startup launches S.F. office with hire of Clinton campaign alum". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  8. Lynley, Matthew (February 2, 2017). "Visual search startup Clarifai beefs up its AI team with a new San Francisco office". Tech Crunch. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  9. Townsend, Tess; Wagner, Kurt (February 2, 2017). "This visual recognition startup has poached AI talent from Twitter". Recode. Vox Media. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  10. Andrea Frome on LinkedIn
  11. Andrea Frome publications indexed by Google Scholar
  12. Metz, Cade; Singer, Natasha (April 3, 2019). "A.I. Experts Question Amazon's Facial-Recognition Technology". The New York Times. Retrieved October 21, 2019.