Alum Zoom with Rachel (Xiaoyu) Tian, PhD (BME), Machine Learning Engineer, Twitter

Our guest this week will be Rachel (Xiaoyu) Tian, PhD (BME, '16), Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter. Rachel's prior experience includes Starbucks and GE Healthcare. She received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Duke in 2016 and has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University. She will discuss her background, career path, current job and experience searching for jobs in the US as an international candidate.

5 Questions:
1. Can you tell us about your background?
2. How did you get your job?
3. What's a typical day like at your organization (pre- and post-COVID)?
4. What can postdocs and students who would like to work in this field(or explore it further) do to prepare?
5. What is the employment outlook for this field, given the COVID crisis? (please note that the answer to this question may be "we don't know yet.")