Software Design and Development (SDD), London, UK
Gave a talk and a day-long workshop on Data Science for the SDD conference in London, UK.
2023
NDC Porto, Porto, Portugal
Gave a talk and a workshop on Data Science for NDC Porto in Porto, Portugal.
NDC Copenhagen Developers Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gave a talk and a workshop on Data Science for the Copenhagen Developers Festival hosted by NDC in Copenhagen, Denmark.
DevConf, South Africa
Gave a talk on Data Science for DevConf ZA conference in Cape Town and Pretoria in South Africa. Also participated in a panel on getting started with public speaking in the Pretoria editon of the conference.
Prairie DevCon, Winnipeg, Canada
Gave talks on Data Science and User Research for Prairie Dev Con conference in Winnipeg, Canada.
UX New Zealand, virtual
Gave a talk on Data Science and UX Research at UX New Zealand.
PyBay, San Francisco, USA
Gave a talk on Data Science failures for PyBay in San Francisco, USA.
MLCon, New York, USA
Gave a talk and a day-long workshop on Data Science for MLCon in New York, USA.
.NET Rocks podcast
Invited to the .NET Rocks podcast to talk about Data Science and User Research.
Women in Data, Pandora, Oakland
Invited to give a talk on Data Science failures for the Women in Data series at Pandora in Oakland, California.
LanLearning, virtual
Gave a tutorial on Natural Language Processing for the non-profit LanLearning's Data Inspire Summer Camp for high school students.
WiMLDS x Lyft, San Francisco
Gave a talk on Data Science failures and participated in a fireside chat for the Women in Machine Learning and Data Science (WiMLDS) meetup sponsored by Lyft in San Francisco.
Women in Data Science (WiDS) San Francisco at IBM, San Francisco and Virtual
Leading the planning, curation, and organization of the regional event WiDS San Francisco at IBM . Speakers are from IBM, OpenAI, Netflix, Amazon, Google, and more. Free and open to all. Register here to attend in person in San Francisco or virtually.
SWE Women in Tech Panel and Mixer, San Francisco
Organizing and moderating a panel discussion and mixer as part of the non-profit Society of Women Engineers - Golden Gate Section (SWE-GGS) in San Francisco. Free and open to all. Register here.
IxDA Sydney podcast, virtual
Invited on the IxDA Sydney podcast to share my thoughts on why Data Science and Design Research is the perfect duo.
Women Techmakers International Women's Day, San Francisco
Gave a talk on 'Dare to be a public speaker' for International Women's Day celebration, organized by Women Techmakers and Google Developer Groups at Google San Francisco.
Product World, Oakland, USA
Gave a talk on Data Science and UX Research at Product World, world's largest Product Management and Product Development conference.
CodeMash, Sandusky, USA
Giving talks on Data Science and UX Research at CodeMash.
2022
Web Directions Summit, Sydney, Australia
Giving a talk on 'Why Data Science and UX Research should be Best Friends' as part of the Design track for Web Directions Summit.
Prairie Dev Con, Winnipeg, Canada
Gave a talk on 'Demystifying Data Science', and another talk on 'Why Data Science and UX Research should be Best Friends' for 50+ attendees as part of Prairie Dev Con - Winnipeg.
Core User to UX podcast
Invited on 'Core: User to UX!', India's first podcast on UX research. I shared my experiences with Research Ops, my role as a Data Scientist on the team, analytics, insights, and more. Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Google Podcast, Amazon Music.
LanLearning, online
Facilitated a workshop on 'Natural Language Processing' for high school students as part of the Data InspireCamp for LanLearning.
IBM Call for Code for Racial Justice, online
Facilitated a workshop on 'Natural Language Processing in Tech for Good Applications' for 170+ attendees as part of the IBM Call for Code for Racial Justice initiative. You can view the recording here.
2021
StrangeLoop, St. Louis, USA
Delivering a workshop on 'Introduction to Data Science with Python' for 12 attendees for StrangeLoop on 30th September, 2021.
LanLearning, online
Facilitated a workshop on 'Natural Language Processing' for high school students as part of the Data Science Inspire summer camp for LanLearning.
2020
AIxDesign, online
Delivering a talk on 'Data Science in User Research' for more than 400 attendees for AIxDesign on 14th September, 2020. Register here.
LanLearning, online
Facilitated a workshop on 'Natural Language Processing' for high school students as part of the Data Science Inspire summer camp for LanLearning.
DevTalks Romania, online
Delivered a talk on 'Natural Language Processing in Python' for Devtalks Romania which went virtual due to COVID-19.
IBM Developer, online
Facilitator for the tutorial 'Hands-on introduction to NLP' for IBM Developer which more than 180 people attended live. You can view the recording here.
O'Reilly Strata Data & AI, London, UK (cancelled)
Instructor for the 2-day training 'Data Wrangling with Python' for O'Reilly Strata Data & AI in London, UK. Event cancelled due to COVID-19.
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi, India
Instructor for the 2-day workshop on Data Science and Natural Language Processing for full-time MBA students at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) in Delhi, India.
BITS Pilani, Pilani, India
Instructor for workshops on Data Science and Natural Language Processing for first-year to fourth-year engineering students as part of the ACM chapter at BITS Pilani in Pilani, India.
Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune, India
Delivered a talk on career, networking, and Data Science for engineering students at Symbiosis Institute of Technology in Pune, India.
2019
PyCon US, Cleveland, USA
Instructor for the tutorial 'An introduction to Data Science with Python' for PyCon US, the largest Python conference in the world, in Cleveland, Ohio.
O'Reilly OSCON, Portland, USA
Gave a talk on 'Demystifying Data Science' and conducted a tutorial on 'A hands-on introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python' as part of O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon.
PyCaribbean, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Instructor for the workshop 'A hands-on introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python' for the Python conference, PyCaribbean in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
PyTennessee, Nashville, USA
Instructor for two tutorials - 'Intro to Python' and 'A hands-on introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python' for the regional Python conference, PyTennessee in Nashville, Tennessee.
PyConf Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
Instructor for 'Intro to Data Science' tutorial for the regional Python conference, PyConf Hyderabad in Hyderabad, India.
Michigan DevFest, Detroit, USA
Gave a talk on 'Demystifying Data Science' as part of Michigan DevFest in Detroit, Michigan.
Self.conference, Detroit, USA
Delivered a talk on 'Demystifying Data Science' as part of self.conference in Detroit, Michigan.
Revolution Conf, Virginia, USA
Spoke on 'Deciphering Data Science' and instructed for the workshop 'Let's get coding in Python!' for Revolution Conf in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
GETconf, Omaha, USA
Instructor for the workshop 'A hands-on introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python' for Gender Equity in Tech Conference (GETconf) in Omaha, Nebraska.
Cream City Code, Milwaukee, USA
Gave an overview of Data Science along with a fun experiment to determine what is most similar to Milwaukee - cheese, beer, pretzels or Harley-Davidson as part of Cream City Code, Fall Experiment, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Mini PyCon, San Francisco, USA
Spoke on 'Demystifying Data Science' for Mini PyCon by PyLadies in San Francisco. The talk gave an overview of the Data Science pipeline along with the different algorithms using Python.
DevPulseCon, Mountain View, USA
Gave a talk on 'Deciphering Data Science' as part of DevPulseCon by CodeChix - Bay Area in Mountain View. The talk gave an overview of the Data Science pipeline along with the different algorithms and applications using demos in Python.
Bio-IT World West (Molecular Med TriCon), San Francisco, USA
Spoke on 'Decoding Data Science' for Life Sciences as part of the Data Science, Precision Medicine and Machine Learning symposium at Bio-IT World West (Molecular Med TriCon) in San Francisco.
Girl Geek X Elevate, online
Introduced 'E2Cbot: Star Trek chatbot' as part of the virtual conference Elevate by Girl Geek X, held in honor of International Women's Day.
2018
Mentor, AI4ALL Spring Fellowship
As a mentor for AI4ALL AI Spring Fellowship, I guided a group of high school girls for three months to use Natural Language Processing to parse 911 EMS calls and prioritize them. AI4ALL is a non-profit working to increase diversity and inclusion in AI.
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, USA
Delivered a talk at San Francisco Public Library on how data science is shaping the world we live in - right from grocery shelves to social media platforms. The talk also touched upon the Cambridge Analytica event and other bizarre incidents.
Pre-GHC meetup by AnitaB.org and Systers, San Francisco, USA
Panelist for the AnitaB.org and Systers meetup organized in San Francisco as a pre-cursor to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing - the largest gathering of women technologists. I shared my past experiences and tips on how to make the most of the Grace Hopper conference. You can view the recording here.
Guest Speaker, PyLadies Remote
Delivered an Intro to Python talk for PyLadies remote for more than 60 attendees. The talk introduced foundational concepts of programming using Python. A recording of the session can be found here.
Guest instructor, Hack Reactor
Guest instructor for underrepresented groups in the Telegraph track for Hack Reactor bootcamp. The talk introduced basic and intermediate Python concepts using mini-projects to provide hands-on coding.
Big Data Week - KeepCoding, online
Webinar on Data Science as part of Big Data week for the KeepCoding Madrid community. KeepCoding inspires people to join the field of technology and reduce unemployment by filling empty tech positions. You can view the recording here.
IBM SWIFT community, online
Gave a talk on 'A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist' for the internal community SWIFT - Successful Women Inspiring Future Talent at IBM. The talk dealt with day-to-day responsibilities of a Data Scientist and the steps involved in a typical Data Science pipeline.
2014 - 2017
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco Public Library
In 2017, I regularly conducted introductory Python workshops at the San Francisco Public Library for people from all backgrounds.
Co-mentor, OurCS research workshop, Carnegie Mellon University
Co-mentor for the project 'Energy Storage and Distribution in Renewable-energy Powered Microgrids' as part of the OurCS (Opportunities for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science) workshop.
Python Instructor, Program Your Future, University of California - Berkeley
Taught a coding workshop to middle-school and high-school students as part of Program Your Future, University of California - Berkeley. The objective was to teach programming by implementing the Pong game in Python.
Math tutor, Regular Service Project for Visually Handicapped, Singapore
Taught Maths as part of Nanyang Technological University's volunteering program for Regular Service Project for Visually Handicapped.