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Guest Speakers

2022-23 School Year

New speakers coming up soon!

2021-22 School Year

  1. Danielle Spitzer, Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley studying molecular biology (9/15/21)

  2. QinQin Yu, Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley studying biophysics (9/28/21)

  3. Lisa Winter, roboticist and judge on BattleBots (10/19/21)

  4. Ellen Novoseller, artificial intelligence roboticist (10/29/21)

  5. Yulia Alexandr, Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley studying mathematics (11/21/21)

  6. AWE Panelists including Kalie Ching, Ruslana Yurtyn, Katherine Shu, and Enya, undergrad student pursuing computer science and electrical engineering (1/26/22)

  7. Isabel Rayas, Ph.D. student at USC studying computer science with an aerospace engineering background (2/9/22)

  8. Allison Nguyen, product engineer, studied bioengineering with a minor in computer science and electrical engineering at UC Berkeley (2/16/22)

  9. Lucy Andrews, Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley studying environmental science, policy, and management (3/23/22)

2020-21 School Year

  1. Mary Horton, UC Berkeley Public Health Graduate student (9/9/20)

  2. Elizabeth Fair, Professor of Global Health Sciences at UCSF (9/28/20)

  3. Elizabeth Eck, Berkeley and NSF Biophysics Graduate Fellow at UC Berkeley (10/12/20)

  4. Julia Driscoll, Undergrad at UC Berkeley studying chemical biology, part of Translational Medicine and Stem Cell Association. Joined by Sofia Theradoras, Shreyas Kallingal, Jenna Chui, Sahar Formoli (10/14/20)

  5. Marlena Tang, doctor working in emergency medicine (10/26/20)

  6. Kayla Currier, Graduate student at UC Berkeley studying physics (11/16/20)

  7. Meera Aravinth, UC Berkeley physics and math double major, undergrad(11/30/20)

  8. Rachel Freedman, PhD student at UC Berkeley studying the intersection between artificial intelligence and ethics (1/11/21)

  9. Lisa Winter, roboticist and judge on BattleBot

2019-20 School Year

  1. Pam Swedlow, psychiatrist (9/25/19)

  2. Vivian Liu, UC Berkeley student in computer science and cognitive science (10/9/19)

  3. Maya Lodish, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at UCSF (11/6/19)

  4. Connie Mi and Jose A La Torre, UC Berkeley engineering students (12/11/19)

  5. Wren Suess, UC Berkeley PhD student studying astrophysics (2/19/20)

  6. Lola Takhirov, Sidra Seddiqee, Max Hauptschein, Marisa Wong, and Richard Ruan, UC Berkeley Students part of Translational Medicine and Stem Cell Association (2/26/20)

  7. Kristin Barker, Virtual meeting PhD student at UC Berkeley studying wildlife ecology (5/27/20)

  8. QinQin Yu, PhD student at UC Berkeley studying biophysics, see notes for more details (6/15/20)

2018-19 School Year

  1. Lauren Otto, semiconductor engineer (10/3/18)

  2. Maia Singer, environmental engineer (10/24/18)

  3. Rachel Cohen, structural engineer (11/4/18)

  4. Dr. Sandra Huang, works at Alameda County Dept. of Public Health (11/24/18)

  5. Harshala Newadkar, software engineer (12/5/18)

  6. Aisha Ferrazares, software engineer/engineering manager @ Dropbox (12/20/18)

  7. Elizabeth Niespolo, geochemist (2/21/19)

  8. Jade Fostvedt and Dipiti Jasrasaria, chemistry (3/1/19)

  9. Cathy Blankespoor, molecular biology and Sarah Blakespoor’s mom (3/20/19)

  10. Kathryn Materna, seismology and geodesy (4/18/19)

  11. Clio Sleator, works to build telescopes, grad student (4/25/19)

  12. Avery Shawler, environmental science, uses neural networks to track elk (6/4/19)

Unfortunately, we don't have a list of speakers prior to 2018

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