Welcome to the fourth season of the "You Belong in AI!" podcast presented by UCLA ACM AI Outreach. To start off our season, we will be talking to Pedro Silva (he/him), manager of inclusive AI at Pinterest! Pedro received his PhD from UC Irvine in 2019. In this episode, Pedro shares about his background, his journey to working at Pinterest, and the fascinating work he does on inclusive AI.

Want to know more about the work Pedro does? Check out the links below:

Representation Online Matters: Practical End-to-End Diversification in Search and Recommender Systems

Building for Inclusivity: The Technical Blueprint of Pinterest’s Multidimensional Diversification

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