Alice in Wonderlab

Alice 04 - Marija: the machine trainer

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:54:31 GMT

In this fourth episode of AIWL we talk about Artificial Intelligence with Marija Stojchevska, post-doctoral researcher in Computer Science. Marija works on machine learning applied to health care. Her research focuses more precisely on activity recognition: she trains the machine to guess what a person is doing based on data received from a wearable device. This technology has potential applications in many domains, and Marija discusses with us what she likes most and least of it. As well as what her experience has been so far, as a young woman in a STEM field.

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Alice 03 - Fien: (re)thinking Science

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:56:45 GMT

Fien De Block is a researcher in Islamic Intellectual History and History of Science. Her PhD research, at the cross-roads between history of science, history of religion, and history of magic, challenges the modern categories applied to these disciplines and their sources. In this episode, Alice invites us to reflect on our very concept of science and how it affects the way we look at science in the past and in the present, in our own culture and outside of it.

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Alice 02 - Zhanar: strength in numbers

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 05:00:37 GMT

Our second Alice is Zhanar Konys, PhD candidate in Gender Economics at the European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), in Brussels.

In this episode, Zhanar will walk us through the meanders of data analysis, and show us how economists read and interpret numbers to understand (and hopefully improve!) the world we live in.

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Alice 01 - Giorgia on the rocks

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 12:45:34 GMT

Out first Alice is Giorgia Stasi, a reasearcher at the Geological Survey of Belgium and PhD Candidate in Applied Geophysics at the University of Liège.

In the pilot episode, you will hear about Giorgia's role in the Robominers project, a European project aimed at developing a robot that will be able to detect underground minerals and extract them.

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