11-03, 10:15–10:55 (America/New_York), Central Park East (Room 6501a)
Have questions after a keynote? Excited to learn more from one of our keynote speakers? Fireside chats are a great opportunity meet our speakers in a more intimate setting.
Join the moderator Erin Mikail Staples for a fireside chat with keynote speaker Michelle Gill.
Michelle Gill is a Manager for Research & Development and a Senior Deep Learning Scientist in
Life Sciences at NVIDIA, where she focuses on deep learning and HPC methods for scientific
discovery. She is also the technical lead for BioNeMo, a platform for development and access to
generative AI models in drug discovery. She holds a PhD in Molecular Biophysics and
Biochemistry from Yale University and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at
Columbia University Medical School.
No previous knowledge expected
Michelle Gill is a Manager for Research & Development and a Senior Deep Learning Scientist in
Life Sciences at NVIDIA, where she focuses on deep learning and HPC methods for scientific
discovery. She is also the technical lead for BioNeMo, a platform for development and access to
generative AI models in drug discovery. She holds a PhD in Molecular Biophysics and
Biochemistry from Yale University and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at
Columbia University Medical School.
Erin Mikail Staples is a developer advocate, community human, tech educator, and comedian living in Brooklyn, NYC🗽 by way of Reno, NV 🤠.
She is currently a Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly. Erin hosts the DevRel(ish) podcast and performs and produces comedy in NYC.
Erin's various shenanigans have taken her to speaking at events like PyData Berlin and PyCon, garnered Jeff Staple's attention, appeared in The New York Times, broadcasted across the sound waves on the Practical AI podcast, or in USA Today's Storytellers Project, exist in the archive of the Museum of Alternate History and her mom's dogs's Instagram account.