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Margaret Mitchell biography: 13 things about ex-Google research scientist from Seattle, Washington

Margaret Mitchell is a research scientist from Seattle, Washington, United States. Here are 13 more things about her:

  1. From 2001 to 2005, she attended Reed College in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon where she earned her bachelor’s degree in linguistics. She is the author of “The Generation of Referring Expressions in Natural Language Processing,” which was published in 2005. (a) (b)
  2. From July 2005 to August 2007, she was a research assistant at the Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU) at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland (a)
  3. From 2007 to 2008, she attended the University of Washington in Seattle where she earned her master’s degree in computational linguistics. (a) (c)
  4. From May 2008 to July 2008, she was a speech synthesis specialist at Microsoft in Redmond, King County, Washington. She was a founding member of Microsoft Research’s Cognition group, focused on advancing artificial intelligence. (a) (c)
  5. From September 2008 to August 2009, she was a research associate at CSLU. (a)
  6. From September 2009 to September 2012, she was a PhD student in the natural language generation (NLG) group at the University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland. (a) (c)
  7. She co-authored “Computational prosodic markers for autism” with Jan PH Van Santen, Emily T Prud’Hommeaux and Lois M Black. It was published in May 2010. (b)
  8. From November 2012 to September 2013, she was a postdoctoral researcher at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (a)
  9. From September 2013 to September 2016, she was a researcher in Microsoft Research’s Natural Language Processing group. (a) (c)
  10. She co-authored “Vqa: Visual question answering” with Stanislaw Antol, Aishwarya Agrawal, Jiasen Lu, Dhruv Batra, C Lawrence Zitnick and Devi Parikh. It was published in 2015. (b)
  11. From November 2016 to October 2020, she was a senior research scientist at Google in Seattle. (a)
  12. She co-authored “Closing the AI accountability gap: defining an end-to-end framework for internal algorithmic auditing” withInioluwa Deborah Raji, Andrew Smart, Rebecca N White, Timnit Gebru, Ben Hutchinson, Jamila Smith-Loud, Daniel Theron and Parker Barnes. It was published on January 27, 2020. (b)
  13. In October 2020, she became a staff research scientist at Google. She was fired in February 2021. (a) (d)

 

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