Jaydeep Kulkarni - Career and IEEE involvement

In this episode, Florence Sèdes, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sciences in Toulouse, discusses the impact of biases on equality between men and women and how she plans to tackle the problem as Chair of the Women In Engineering Affinity Group, IEEE French Section.

In this episode, Françoise Chombar, co-founder and chairwoman of Melexis, tells her story as co-founder of Belgium's largest electronics company. She also discusses the challenges she faces as a woman in a male-dominated world.

In this episode, Claire Lajoie-Mazenc, Senior Scientific Advisor at RTE, talks to us about her career path. From a dream of becoming a scientist, she worked as an engineer and is now a team leader at RTE.

In this episode, Prof. Yu Kevin Cao, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, talks about how research is conducted in the USA t and his involvement in the IEEE. Of course, we asked him advices for PhD students !

In this episode, Michela Chiappalone from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies in Genova, Italy, talk about her motivation to work in this field and how the research interacts with the industry to bring novel solutions to the public.

In this episode, Muriel Medard, Professor of EECS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), talks about her career in academic research as a woman. She also gives her views on how to achieve diversity in employment.  This episode was recorded in live after her talk at Junia-ISEN Lille, thanks to Lille Catholic University support

In  this episode, Jaydeep Kulkarni, assistant professor at the University fo Texas at Austin, talk about his career as a researcher and his involvement in IEEE. Of course, we ask him advice for PhD students.

In this episode, Andreas Kaiser, scientific director in Junia Engineering School, talk about his career as a researcher and his different posts in school administration, giving us his feedback on how to make choices along the way and not to wait to take responsibilities. We also address questions regarding the relation between the industry and the academic research. Of course, we ask him advice for PhD students. In few words : open yourself to other subjects, don't be trapped by your own thesis, you'll find that other researchers might face the same questions as you. 

In this first episode we interview Chris Rudell, Associate Professor at the University of Washington. We talk about career choice, peculiarly about the difference between academic and industrial career.