Natacha Crooks: Life as a Berkeley CS Professor
Update: 2024-08-19
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A conversation with Natacha Crooks. Natacha is an assistant professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, a co-director of the Berkeley Sky Computing Lab, and the recipient of the ACM Dennis Ritchie Doctoral Research Award for the Best Dissertation in Systems Research.
Socials:
website: https://nacrooks.github.io/
twitter: https://twitter.com/siobhcroo
00:00 Intro
04:44 Deciding to be a Professor
07:53 Having Three Phd Advisors Quit
16:16 Co-Advising
25:05 Daily Life of a Professor
32:15 Social Life as a Professor
39:37 Research Quality vs Quantity
44:31 The Pressure to Switch to Machine Learning Research
49:42 Top School Privilege and Elitism in Academia
56:31 Choosing a Grad School
59:06 Advice
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