Andrea Frome
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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{{BLP primary sources|date=December 2019}}
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| name = Andrea Frome
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| fields = Computer Science
| workplaces = Google
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- University of Mary Washington (BS)
- University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
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| thesis_title = Learning Local Distance Functions for Exemplar-Based Object Recognition
| thesis_url = https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2007/EECS-2007-98.html
| thesis_year = 2007
| doctoral_advisor = Jitendra Malik
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Andrea Frome is an American computer scientist who works in computer vision and machine learning.
Education
Frome attended the University of Mary Washington for her undergraduate work, receiving a BS in environmental science in 1996. After a few years working in environmental consulting, she changed fields to computer science. She received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in Computer Vision and Machine Learning in 2007 under the supervision of Jitendra Malik.{{Cite web | url=https://kaptur.co/10-questions-for-a-computer-vision-scientist-andrea-frome/| title=10 questions for a computer vision scientist : Andrea Frome| date=2015-04-08| website=Kaptur| language=en-US| access-date=2019-10-22}}{{cite thesis|url=https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2007/EECS-2007-98.html|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|last=Frome|first=Andrea|date=2007|type=PhD thesis|title= Learning Local Distance Functions for Exemplar-Based Object Recognition}}{{cite web | url=https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/Dissertations/Faculty/malik.html| access-date=October 21, 2019| title=Ph.D. Dissertations - Jitendra Malik| publisher=University of California, Berkeley EECS Department}}
Career
After her PhD, she worked at Google for seven years, where she was involved in developing the AI used to blur out faces and license plates in Google Street View.{{cite web |last1=Matthews |first1=Kayla |title=5 women advancing AI industry research |url=https://bdtechtalks.com/2019/02/19/5-women-advancing-ai-industry-research/ |website=TechTalks |date=19 February 2019 |accessdate=21 October 2019}}{{cite web | last=Frome| first=Andrea| author-link=Andrea Frome| url=http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/street-view-revisits-manhattan.html| title=Google's LatLong Blog| publisher=Google-latlong.blogspot.com| accessdate=August 27, 2010}}{{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariyayao/2017/05/18/meet-20-incredible-women-advancing-a-i-research/#3b24356f26f9| title=Meet These Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research| work=Forbes| author=Mariya Yao| access-date=October 28, 2019}}
After leaving Google in 2015, she worked for a short time at Nuna Inc., before joining the technology team of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.{{cite web |last1=Truong |first1=Kevin |title=AI startup launches S.F. office with hire of Clinton campaign alum |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2017/02/clarifai-artificial-intelligence-andrea-frome.html?page=all |website=San Francisco Business Times |accessdate=21 October 2019}} At the end of the Clinton campaign, she joined Clarifai as director of research.{{cite web | last1=Lynley |first1=Matthew |title=Visual search startup Clarifai beefs up its AI team with a new San Francisco office |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/visual-search-startup-clarifai-beefs-up-its-ai-team-with-a-new-san-francisco-office/ |website=Tech Crunch |date=2 February 2017 |accessdate=21 October 2019}}{{cite web | url=https://www.vox.com/2017/2/2/14459626/clarifai-poaches-twitter-machine-learning-cortex| title=This visual recognition startup has poached AI talent from Twitter| website=Recode| publisher=Vox Media| last1=Townsend| first1=Tess| last2=Wagner| first2=Kurt| date=2 February 2017| access-date=October 28, 2019}} In 2018, she returned to Google to become one of the founding members of a new research laboratory in Ghana.{{LinkedIn URL|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-frome|name=Andrea Frome}}
Frome has over 4,000 citations in the fields of computer vision, deep learning, and machine learning.{{Google Scholar|id=f9_wq_kAAAAJ|name=Andrea Frome}}
Activism
In 2019, she co-signed a letter addressed to Amazon regarding its facial analysis software and alleged biases in its implementation and interpretation by police departments, etc.{{cite news |last1=Metz |first1=Cade |last2=Singer |first2=Natasha |title=A.I. Experts Question Amazon's Facial-Recognition Technology |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/technology/amazon-facial-recognition-technology.html |website=The New York Times |date=3 April 2019 |accessdate=21 October 2019}}
References
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External links
- {{Google scholar id|f9_wq_kAAAAJ}}
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