Andrea Frome Explained

Andrea Frome
Nationality:American
Fields:Computer Science
Workplaces:Google
Alma Mater:
    • University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
    • University of Mary Washington (BS)
    Thesis Title:Learning Local Distance Functions for Exemplar-Based Object Recognition
    Thesis Url:https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2007/EECS-2007-98.html
    Thesis Year:2007
    Doctoral Advisor:Jitendra Malik
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    Andrea Frome is an American computer scientist who works in computer vision and machine learning.

    Education

    Frome attended the University of Mary Washington for her undergraduate work, receiving a BS in environmental science in 1996. After a few years working in environmental consulting, she changed fields to computer science. She received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in Computer Vision and Machine Learning in 2007 under the supervision of Jitendra Malik.[1] [2] [3]

    Career

    After her Ph.D., she worked at Google for seven years, where she was involved in developing the AI used to blur out faces and license plates in Google Street View.[4] [5] [6]

    After leaving Google in 2015, she worked for a short time at Nuna Inc., before joining the technology team of the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.[7] At the end of the Clinton campaign, she joined Clarifai as director of research.[8] [9] In 2018, she returned to Google to become one of the founding members of a new research laboratory in Ghana.[4]

    Frome has over 4,000 citations in the fields of computer vision, deep learning, and machine learning.

    Activism

    In 2019, she co-signed a letter addressed to Amazon regarding its facial analysis software and alleged biases in its implementation and interpretation by police departments, etc.[10]

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: 10 questions for a computer vision scientist : Andrea Frome. 2015-04-08. Kaptur. en-US. 2019-10-22.
    2. Learning Local Distance Functions for Exemplar-Based Object Recognition. University of California, Berkeley. Frome. Andrea. 2007. PhD thesis.
    3. Web site: Ph.D. Dissertations - Jitendra Malik. October 21, 2019. University of California, Berkeley EECS Department.
    4. Web site: Matthews . Kayla . 5 women advancing AI industry research . TechTalks . 19 February 2019 . 21 October 2019.
    5. Web site: Frome. Andrea. Andrea Frome. Google's LatLong Blog. Google-latlong.blogspot.com. August 27, 2010.
    6. Web site: Meet These Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research. Forbes. Mariya Yao. October 28, 2019.
    7. Web site: Truong . Kevin . AI startup launches S.F. office with hire of Clinton campaign alum . San Francisco Business Times . 21 October 2019.
    8. Web site: Lynley . Matthew . Visual search startup Clarifai beefs up its AI team with a new San Francisco office . Tech Crunch . 2 February 2017 . 21 October 2019.
    9. Web site: This visual recognition startup has poached AI talent from Twitter. Recode. Vox Media. Townsend. Tess. Wagner. Kurt. 2 February 2017. October 28, 2019.
    10. News: Metz . Cade . Singer . Natasha . A.I. Experts Question Amazon's Facial-Recognition Technology . The New York Times . 3 April 2019 . 21 October 2019.