Janelle Shane
Artificial intelligence researcher and writer
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Janelle Shane is an optics research scientist and artificial intelligence researcher, writer and public speaker. She keeps a popular science blog called AI Weirdness, where she documents various machine learning algorithms, both ones submitted by readers and ones she personally creates. Shane's first book You Look Like A Thing And I Love You: How AI Works And Why It's Making The World A Weirder Place was published in November 2019 covering many of the topics from her AI Weirdness blog for a general audience.
- Optical trapping
- Artificial intelligence research
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Early life and education
Shane studied electrical engineering at Michigan State University and graduated in 2007.[1] She started out in a research group that worked on genetic algorithms, and then worked with Marcos Dantus on genetic algorithms for femtosecond lasers.[2] She earned her master's degree in physics at the University of St Andrews, where she worked with Kishan Dholakia on pulse shaping and dispersion compensation.[1] In 2008, Shane joined University of California, San Diego as a graduate student, where she worked on ultra-fast nanoscale optics.[1]
Career
Shane works at Boulder Nonlinear Systems, an organisation who are developing holographic optical trapping modules for the International Space Station.[3][4] She is also working on low size, weight and power (SWaP) 3D wind sensor technologies for unmanned aerial vehicles.[4] The optical trapping systems (tweezers) use focused laser beams to trap transparent microparticles, and the holographic optical trapping uses liquid crystal spatial light modulators that can convert a single beam into separate steerable beams.[4] This system allows Shane to position trapped particles in arrays.[4] The technologies include liquid polarisation gratings for airborne Doppler lidar systems.
Shane came across a list of neural network cookbook recipes written by Tom Brewe.[2] AI Weirdness, Shane's blog on Artificial Intelligence, features everyday neural networks and algorithms.[5] Shane writes for Fast Company and O'Reilly Media.[6][7] She has collaborated with CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times.[2] Shane delivered a talk at TED 2019, where she spoke about the realities of artificial intelligence.[8] She argued that while artificial intelligence is celebrated as a gift to society, in reality it often doesn't live up to the hype.[8][9] Her book You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place was released in November 2019.[10]
Selected publications
- Shane, Janelle C. (2008). "Control of Molecular Fragmentation Using Shaped Femtosecond Pulses". J. Phys. Chem. A. 112 (17): 3789–3812. Bibcode:2008JPCA..112.3789L. doi:10.1021/jp071691p. PMID 18433144.
- Shane, Janelle C. (2010). "Effect of pulse temporal shape on optical trapping and impulse transfer using ultrashort pulsed lasers". Optics Express. 18 (7): 7554–7568. Bibcode:2010OExpr..18.7554S. doi:10.1364/OE.18.007554. hdl:1885/101765. PMID 20389777.
- Shane, Janelle C. (2006). "Selective nonlinear optical excitation with pulses shaped by pseudorandom Galois fields". Phys. Rev. A. 74 (4) 041805. Bibcode:2006PhRvA..74d1805L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.74.041805.
