Immigrant Computer Scientists

Episode 23: Hear voices from upcoming Season 2! New countries, new guests, new stories! Fresh episodes releasing every week!

Episode 22: How do you discover that you are a good entrepreneur, or that you like it? Does a PhD help one be a good entrepreneur? Featuring: Soodeh Farokhi (VP Nakisa, and founder of successful startups in Iran and Canada), and Fadel Adib (Professor, MIT). 

Episode 21: Two guests talk about inequity and diversity in IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics). Danqi Chen, a rare woman gold medalist at IOI (and now a Prof). And Prof. Jelani Nelson's analysis of IOI inequity  data for the US. 

Episode 20: What was CS like in 1970s and 80s, around the world? The answers might surprise you! Stories of studying and working CS in: Europe (Yugoslavia), South America (Brazil), Africa (Egypt) in the 1970s and early 1980s. Featuring prominent immigrant Computer Scientists: Dejan Milojicic, Rico Malvar, Amr El Abbadi. 

Episode 19: Four Prominent Computer Scientists who have spent time in both academia and industry, over multiple decades, contrast their experiences in these two sectors. Featuring: Rico Malvar, Dilma Da Silva, Rodrigo Fonseca, Fadel Adib.

Episode 18: Two prominent US Computer Scientists, both Professors in the US, grew up in  Lebanon and Egypt in the 1960, 70s, 90s, and 2000s. They describe the effect of the wars in their countries on their and their family's lives. A remix episode from Season 1.

Episode 17: Three prominent US Computer Scientists who immigrated from Yugoslavia in the 1980s and 90s describe the effect of the Balkan Wars (1990s) on their and their family's lives. A remix episode from Season 1.

Episode 16:  Impostor Syndrome. And Failures and Rejections: How Ten accomplished and prominent Computer Scientists (from academia, industry, entrepreneurs) handle them in their career and life.

Episode 14: Interview with Danqi Chen, Assistant Professor of CS at Princeton. Stanford PhD. IOI Gold Medal Winner (only woman to win Gold in 2008!). Student in famous Yao Class at Tsinghua University.