Episode 11: Hacking the Spread of COVID-19
5th June 2020
In this episode, we talk to Dr Emma Hodcroft on her research in tracking the evolution of the new coronavirus, SARS-Cov-2, and her journey into computer science and bioinformatics.
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Episode 10: What is Open Science?
20th April 2020
We talk to Alexandra Lautarescu about open science, what makes good science, and what we can do as researchers and funders to promote and practise open science.
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Episode 9: Living with Imposter Syndrome
16th March 2020
What is imposter syndrome? Do you feel like an "imposter"? How do we tackle imposter syndrome?
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In this special episode, we talk to Professor Katherine Hawley, philospoher at the University of St. Andrews about imposter syndrome, why people get it, what we can do to support others with imposter syndrome and how we can tackle it as a society in the workplace and beyond.
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Episode 8: Careers in Tech with Careers In Your Ears Part 2
20th January 2020
ResearcHers Code has teamed up with Vicki Tipton from KCL Careers to bring you Part 2 of two episodes interviewing women who moved from the academia into the tech industry.
Episode 7: Careers in Tech with Careers In Your Ears Part 1
13th December 2019
ResearcHers Code has teamed up with Vicki Tipton from KCL Careers to bring you the first part of two episodes interviewing women who moved from the academia into the tech industry. We are joined by Chloe Tartan, Ella Fitzsimmons and Charlotte Fereday, who each have PhDs in different backgrounds (photonics, religious studies and language and linguistics respectively!) and are now working in tech roles.
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Episode 6: A Digital Design for Life
26th November 2019
We chat to Dr Katie Seaborn, a postdoctoral scientist at the RIKEN Centre for Advanced Intelligence Project in Tokyo. Katie is currently researching into how elderly people interact and have conversations with robots that help prevent the onset of dementia.
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Episode 5: Reimagining Reality
21st October 2019
We chat to Dr Flora Tasse, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality at Streem. She completed a PhD in computer science at the University of Cambridge and was also founder and CEO of Selerio, a start-up in augmented reality.
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It all started when Flora watched Jurassic Park when she was eight years old. Amazed by the realistic nature of the computer-generated dinosaurs, Flora decided she wanted to work in computer graphics. By the age of eleven, she was already programming a PC with the help of a big Visual Basic manual.
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Episode 4: Journey into Quantum
16th September 2019
We talk to Dr Ilana Wisby, CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits, a spin-out company from the University of Oxford building and designing quantum computers.
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Ilana's path to the quantum realm was not exactly linear. As an accomplished pianist and flautist, Ilana had aspirations to study music but decided to study a Physics undergraduate degree with a Minor in Music at Royal Holloway University. She then pursued a PhD in Quantum Physics and subsequently landed herself working in the start-up world.
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Episode 3: Cursing, Coding and (Sci)Comming
12th August 2019
We interview Dr Emma Byrne, science communicator and author of "Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language". Before becoming a freelancer, Emma did a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and was a postdoctoral researcher in Computational Neuroscience.
If you are curious about the science of swearing, parallels between a PhD and parenting, combinatorial explosions, evolutionary computation, bias in AI, how you break into science communication, how to write a non-fiction book and everything else, then you're in for a treat.
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Episode 2: The Inventor in the Lab
15th July 2019
On this episode, we talk to inventor Dr Tempest Van Schaik, a Machine Learning Engineer at Microsoft. She is currently working on Project Fizzyo with University College London and Great Ormand Street Hospital helping children with Cystic Fibrosis. Tempest is a "full-stack" aficionado with expertise from designing agricultural soil testing kits in small start-ups to data science applications for healthcare in big tech companies.
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Episode 1: Coding for Medicine
17th June 2019
We interview Dr Caroline Morton, a GP Registrar based in East London, who is also teaching programming courses to medical and biomedical students at Imperial College London. They chat about why coding is important in medicine, how the NHS is embracing digitisation and tips for teaching coding to beginners.
Pilot Episode 5: Researc/hers vs. the Mutants
13th May 2019
We chat how applying computer science to genomics helps researchers understand mutations in cancer, and interview Dr Kerstin Haase, post-doctoral researcher at the Francis Crick Institute in London working on cancer genomics.
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Pilot Episode 4: Encoding the Environment
15th April 2019
We chat to Dr Chanuki Seresinhe, a data science researcher at the Alan Turing Institute in London, specialising in using big online datasets and deep learning to understand how the aesthetics of the environment affects human well-being. Her research has been published in Nature has drawn worldwide media attention and has been featured in the press, including The Economist and The Times.
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Pilot Episode 3: Breakthroughs in Black Holes
11th March 2019
We talk to Professor Marika Taylor, Professor in Theoretical Physics and Head of Applied Mathematics at the University of Southampton, and Research Fellow at the Turing Institute.
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She talks her PhD on the theory of black holes at the University of Cambridge with the eminent, late physicist, Professor Stephen Hawking, and using the holographic principle to explain quantum effects in black holes.
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Pilot Episode 2: Diving into Deep Learning
11th February 2019
We talk to Dr Raia Hadsell, senior research scientist working on deep learning at Google DeepMind.
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After completing an undergraduate degree in religion and philosophy, Raia decided to pursue research in artificial intelligence - similarly intellectually challenging and thought-provoking, but more concrete in method. Since then, she has forged a successful career in artificial intelligence, pushing the boundaries of knowledge in AI navigation and making significant scientific contributions to deep learning algorithms, and mammalian navigation.
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Pilot Episode 1: De-coding Diversity
17th January 2019
In this first episode, we speak to Dr Milena Tsvetkova, a computational social scientist and Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics. Milena talks about her research in modelling diversity in society and social interactions online, and the importance of teaching computer science at university.
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