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Natacha Crooks: Life as a Berkeley CS Professor


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A conversation with Natacha Crooks. Natacha is an assistant professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, a co-director of the Berkeley Sky Computing Lab, and the recipient of the ACM Dennis Ritchie Doctoral Research Award for the Best Dissertation in Systems Research.

Socials:
website: ⁠https://nacrooks.github.io/
twitter: https://twitter.com/siobhcroo

00:00 Intro

04:44 Deciding to be a Professor

07:53 Having Three Phd Advisors Quit

16:16 Co-Advising

25:05 Daily Life of a Professor

32:15 Social Life as a Professor

39:37 Research Quality vs Quantity

44:31 The Pressure to Switch to Machine Learning Research

49:42 Top School Privilege and Elitism in Academia

56:31 Choosing a Grad School

59:06 Advice

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