In this episode, I chat with Divya Shanmugam, a Graduate Student in the Clinical and Applied Machine Learning Group at MIT CSAIL advised by Prof. John Guttag. Divya completed her undergrad from MIT itself and majored in computer science with a concentration in South Asian studies. She has also interned at Microsoft Research, Borealis AI, D.E. Shaw Research, Counsyl, and Aetion.

Divya is currently focused on building machine learning models that are resilient to unreliable data. We talk about her growing up in a family of academics and getting an early initiation into the world of scientific research; delving into the intersection of computation and biology; differing experiences in an industrial and academic research setting; choosing a graduate school lab and project; virtual seminars and conferences; the importance of a humanistic perspective to contextualise advances in computing; diversity and its connection with ensembles; her current eclectic reading list; and many more things!!