Meet Marie-Philippe: Founder of Girl Knows Tech & Machine Learning Masters Student

I originally knew of Marie-Philippe through her blog and ended up meeting her at a retreat hosted by Google. At that time I was considering getting more active on social media and blogging and she helped me out so much. I am so excited to be writing and interviewing her about her journey with Girl Knows Tech.

1. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

I’m Marie! I’m studying software engineering and just started a masters in machine learning related to speaker recognition. I’m very passionate about getting more girls and women interested in tech, so I am very active on Instagram, on my YouTube and on my blog Girl Knows Tech. I do everything I can to expose tech to underrepresented minorities. :)

2. What is your research about and how did you decide that this is what you wanted to do?

This summer, I will be participating in a summer workshop organized by Johns Hopkins University and their Center for language and speech processing! I’ll be working with a team of researchers on Speaker Detection in Adverse Scenarios with a Single Microphone!

It took me a long time to figure out what I wanted to do in tech, but at the moment I’m just going with my interests and I try not to overthink…