Bio
Virginia Smith is a 5th-year Ph.D. student in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, where she works jointly with Michael I. Jordan and David Culler as a member of the AMPLab. Her research interests are in large-scale machine learning and distributed optimization. She is actively working to increase the presence of women in computer science, most recently by co-founding the Women in Technology Leadership Round Table (WiT). Virginia has won several awards and fellowships while at Berkeley, including the NSF fellowship, Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, NDSEG fellowship, and Tong Leong Lim Pre-Doctoral Prize.
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