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Applying AI to Solve World Challenging Problems.

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AI For Mankind's Volunteers

Meet our volunteers and their continued commitments of applying and building open source AI solutions to help solve world challenging problems and bring positive impacts to society.

Learn more about AI For Mankind and join us. Together we can make things happen and build a better world !

What is your current day job ?

I'm a Machine Learning Scientist working on TV Ad understanding.

What attracted you to AI For Mankind ?

Learning and working with Machine Learning is very rewarding and fun, but being able to use that same knowledge and effort into helping others fulfills me on a whole new level. Added to that, AI For Mankind is a very friendly and passionate group that encourages new ideas and discussion, so it's the perfect outlet for someone who wants to learn and work on things that matter.

What AI For Mankind's projects are you working on ?

  • Seeing the World project to help people who are blind or have low vision
  • Wildfire Early Detection

What do you hope to gain from this experience ?

Get to work with very smart people on building tools that benefit humanity.

What most energizes you and why ?

Trying to problem solve approaches to new projects, working with other members and learning from our speakers.

What are your hobbies ?

If I'm not working on some AI side project I'm usually either hiking or surfing!

What is your current day job ?

I'm a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer.

What attracted you to AI For Mankind ?

The mission of applying AI to solve world challenging problems and bring positive impacts to society.

What AI For Mankind's projects are you working on ?

  • Seeing the World project

What do you hope to gain from this experience ?

Gain valuable hands on experience.

What most energizes you and why ?

Working with people that have the same vision/idea. Seeing things get built.

What are your hobbies ?

Running, ping pong, and working on open source.

Allen Liu

What attracted you to AI For Mankind ?

Hand on machine learning experience and interesting projects.

What AI For Mankind's projects are you working on ?

  • Seeing the World project

Describe the tasks you are working on

Building crowdsourcing api, android application.