Janelle Shane

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Janelle C. Shane
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Known for
  • Optical trapping
  • Artificial intelligence research
Scientific career
InstitutionsBoulder Nonlinear Systems

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.

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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

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Janelle Shane". emerald.ucsd.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-11-12. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  2. 1 2 3 Feldman, Brian (30 May 2017). "Janelle Shane's Neural Network Keeps Producing Hilarious, Terrifying Creations". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  3. ↑ "Janelle Shane's schedule for IDEA Week". ideaweek2019.sched.com. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "BNS Awarded Multiple NASA Contracts". Boulder Nonlinear Systems (BNS). Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  5. ↑ "Janelle Shane | Eyeo Festival" . Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  6. ↑ "Janelle Shane - O'Reilly Media". www.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  7. ↑ "Meet Janelle Shane, one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People 2019". Fast Company. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  8. 1 2 Shane, Janelle. "Janelle Shane | Speaker | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  9. ↑ "Play: Notes from Session 9 of TED2019". TED Blog. 2019-04-18. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  10. ↑ You Look Like a Thing and I Love You. 2019-03-05. ISBN   9781549171529.
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