
8 | Yana Bromberg on getting creative with machine learning
06/28/21 • 51 min
Yana Bromberg is a Professor at Rutgers, where she teaches computers to speak the functional language of biological sequences. In this episode, she talks with Itai and Martin about the amazing creativity of machine learning, the search for weirdness, and her superpower of translating things from one field to another.
Her work is being recognized from virtually all sides, including NASA and NIH. She has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Yana asks deep fundamental questions whose answers are very important for improving our health, preserving our environment, and, as she writes on her website, also to figure out if “Well... did we really start as green slime?!”
For more information on Night Science, visit www.night-science.org
Yana Bromberg is a Professor at Rutgers, where she teaches computers to speak the functional language of biological sequences. In this episode, she talks with Itai and Martin about the amazing creativity of machine learning, the search for weirdness, and her superpower of translating things from one field to another.
Her work is being recognized from virtually all sides, including NASA and NIH. She has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Yana asks deep fundamental questions whose answers are very important for improving our health, preserving our environment, and, as she writes on her website, also to figure out if “Well... did we really start as green slime?!”
For more information on Night Science, visit www.night-science.org
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Night Science - 8 | Yana Bromberg on getting creative with machine learning
Transcript
Yana: The Night Science is finding something that wasn't initially thought of.
Yana: So just basically wandering into the forest of the data and trying to figure out what's up.
Itai: Welcome to the Night Science Podcast, where we explore the untold story of the scientific creative process.
Martin: We are your hosts.
Itai: I'm Itai Yanai.
Martin: And I am Martin Lercher.
Martin: Yana Bromberg earned her Ph.D.
Martin: in biomedical informatics from Colum
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