Dr. Frederica Darema Lecture Series: AI Researcher Judy Hoffman

The Department of Computer Science at Illinois Tech is pleased to announce Judy Hoffman of Georgia Tech as the inaugural speaker for the Dr. Frederica Darema Lecture Series. A reception with light snacks will follow.

Hoffman is an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Previously, she was a research scientist at Facebook AI Research. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016.

The Darema Lecture Series is designed to encourage women and people from underrepresented minorities to pursue academic careers in computer science, and focuses on providing speaking opportunities for tenure track assistant professors. Darema is a Greek-American physicist with a career that has spanned physics, and computer and computational sciences. She received her B.S. degree from the School of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Athens–Greece, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in theoretical nuclear physics from Illinois Tech and the University of California at Davis, respectively.