{"id":30145,"date":"2020-12-01T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T14:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?page_id=30145"},"modified":"2021-08-03T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T18:56:51","slug":"ana-medina-ayala-industry-roundtable-speaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/programs\/student-programs\/industry-roundtables\/industry-roundtables-2\/ana-medina-ayala-industry-roundtable-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Medina Ayala, Industry Roundtable Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cise\/files\/2020\/12\/photo-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-30147 size-thumbnail\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2020\/12\/photo-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2020\/12\/photo-1-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2020\/12\/photo-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2020\/12\/photo-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2020\/12\/photo-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2020\/12\/photo-1.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Ana Medina Ayala is a Robotics Software Engineer at Jibo, Inc., a startup company working on the first social robot for the home. Jibo can perform functions that are now common to computerized assistants, such as provide a weather forecast or the latest news. It can also tell a joke or story on request. But unlike Echo, for example, Jibo uses speech and facial recognition to interact with members of a household. It can identify specific individuals and address them by name, rotate on its base to face someone who\u2019s speaking to it, and shoot photographs on command. In her role, Dr. Medina Ayala develops, integrates, and tests computer vision algorithms ranging from camera control techniques to deep neural networks for facial recognition and verification.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Medina Ayala earned her Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Nacional de San Agustin. She earned her Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tufts University. She earned her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty Host: Sean Andersson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ana Medina Ayala is a Robotics Software Engineer at Jibo, Inc., a startup company working on the first social robot for the home. Jibo can perform functions that are now common to computerized assistants, such as provide a weather forecast or the latest news. It can also tell a joke or story on request. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18553,"featured_media":0,"parent":32411,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30145"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33142,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30145\/revisions\/33142"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}