Meet ML@GT: Joanne Truong is Developing Robots for Complex, Real World Situations

The Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT) is home to nearly 100 talented students from across campus, representing all six of Georgia Tech’s colleges and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).

These students have diverse backgrounds and a wide variety of interests both inside and outside of the classroom. Today, we’d like you to meet Joanne Truong, a second-year machine learning Ph.D. student focused on combining robotics and machine learning to help people with varying needs and abilities. In 2020, Truong was named a member of the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program and received the Google Women Techmakers Scholarship. Truong is also a former intern of Facebook AI Research.

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