CODE SERIES CODE (Career Opportunities Direction Exploration) is an invited guest series dedicated to connecting alumni and industry professionals with the UNT community. The collaboration between the College of Information, its three departments (Information Science, Learning Technologies, and Linguistics) and the UNT Career Center is designed to help students explore professions in their field of study. Each semester will feature guests who will focus on careers in one of our seven areas of study. January 26, 2022 Shad Griffin, Data Scientist at IBM “Building AI that is Fair, Transparent, and Trustworthy”
March 9, 2022 Mike Widener, U.S. Advisor for Bibliopathos “The Joys and Challenges of Working in Special Collections”
April 7, 2022 Sowmya Vajjala, Research Officer at National Research Council, Canada “An Interview with a Computational Linguist” Interviewer: Kristy Phillips, Information Science Ph.D. student, Linguistics Concentration September 20, 2022 Liz Philippi, School Program Coordinator at Texas State Library and Archives Commission “Adventures in School Libraries” Interviewer: Ruchi Shewade, Information Science Ph.D. student October 11, 2022 Tisha Poncio, Digital Learning Specialist at Wakelet “From Classroom Digital Learning Specialist to Industry Expert in Technology for Teaching and Learning” November 1, 2022 Dr. Christopher Hokamp, Principal Applied Scientist at Aylien Labs “Building Products with Natural Language Processing Technologies” Interviewer: Kristy Phillips, Information Science Ph.D. student, Linguistics Concentration
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