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BCI Thursday Next Generations: Career Advice Panel 2
March 17, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Description: Careers within the brain-computer interface (BCI) community can span a variety of organizations outside of academia, industry, or government. However, how to successfully navigate nontraditional career paths or the opportunities available outside of academia, industry, or government are important topics that are not frequently discussed. In this career panel, three panelists in various roles, including science education, program manager of responsible AI\ethics, and science writer\editor, within the BCI community will discuss their unconventional career roles. The goal of the career panel is for trainees to hear and to interact with prominent BCI scientists to understand nontraditional career roles within the BCI community, how to navigate or find them, and lessons learned along the way.
10am PT / 1pm ET
Chair
Stephanie Cernera
University of California, San Francisco
Panelists
Kaitlyn Casimo
Allen Institute
Kaitlyn Casimo leads training, education, and outreach at the Allen Institute, where she develops programs, materials, and other resources to bring open science resources to labs and classrooms around the world. She received her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington and studied neuroscience and theater at Pomona College. She volunteers at Pacific Science Center, the International Brain Bee, and Seattle Repertory Theater. Learn more at kaitlyncasimo.com.
Katherine Pratt
Microsoft
Katherine Pratt is a Program Manager at Microsoft. She received her B.S. in aerospace engineering from MIT in 2008. Following graduation, she served four years in the United States Air Force, spending most of her time as an operational flight test engineer on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. She received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Washington in 2019, where she studied the privacy, ethics, and policy of neural data. Her professional work experience includes Blue Origin and the ACLU of Washington, and a fellowship through TechCongress working on technology policy in the US House of Representatives. In her spare time she knits, bakes bread, and is currently training for a half Ironman triathlon.
Ingrid Wickelgren
Freelance Science Writer & Editor
Ingrid Wickelgren is a freelance science journalist with more than 30 years of experience writing and editing about biology and medicine, with an emphasis on the mind and brain. She has served as a senior editor at Scientific American Mind, managing editor at Spectrum (the leading site for autism research news) and a contributing correspondent for Science. Her work has also appeared in Popular Science, Science News and The New York Times among other publications. She is the author of three nonfiction books.