{"id":28401,"date":"2018-02-08T22:09:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T02:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?p=28401"},"modified":"2021-08-17T00:59:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T04:59:11","slug":"cise-industry-roundtable-ana-medina-ayala-robotics-software-engineer-jibo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/cise-industry-roundtable-ana-medina-ayala-robotics-software-engineer-jibo\/","title":{"rendered":"CISE Industry Roundtable: Ana Medina Ayala, Robotics Software Engineer, Jibo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CISE students gained career insights and advice from Ana Medina Ayala (Ph.D. in ME, 2015)<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>at the February 7, 2018 CISE Industry Roundtable.\u00a0 Professor Sean\u00a0<\/span>Andersson introduced his former student to a group of 16 students.<\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Medina\u00a0<\/span>Ayala<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>is currently a Robotics Software Engineer with\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jibo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jibo, Inc<\/a>., a start-up developer of the \u201cFirst Family Robot\u201d led by\u00a0renowned leaders in the\u00a0robotics and consumer electronics space.\u00a0At Jibo, Dr. Medina Ayala has had the opportunity to contribute to innovations such as the social robot\u2019s unique ability to use facial recognition to interact with people.\u00a0 Her work includes developing, integrating, and testing computer vision algorithms ranging from camera control techniques to deep neural networks for facial recognition and verification.<\/p>\n<p>During the roundtable discussion and luncheon, Dr. Medina Ayala advised students on the importance of clear and constant communication. \u201cWorking in industry, you have to remember that not everyone is an engineer. Collaborations involve people with different talents and backgrounds. Knowing how to convey ideas in a manner that is understandable and relatable is critical.\u201d She also emphasized collaboration as the key to innovation and success.\u00a0 \u201cAlways help others and always ask for help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Dr. Medina Ayala earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University. She received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tufts University, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Nacional de San Agustin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CISE students gained career insights and advice from Ana Medina Ayala (Ph.D. in ME, 2015)\u00a0at the February 7, 2018 CISE Industry Roundtable.\u00a0 Professor Sean\u00a0Andersson introduced his former student to a group of 16 students. Dr. Medina\u00a0Ayala\u00a0is currently a Robotics Software Engineer with\u00a0Jibo, Inc., a start-up developer of the \u201cFirst Family Robot\u201d led by\u00a0renowned leaders in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18553,"featured_media":28404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=28401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28406,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28401\/revisions\/28406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}