{"id":14981,"date":"2022-10-11T06:58:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T10:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14981"},"modified":"2022-10-09T10:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T14:00:04","slug":"industry-workshop-10-12-ruth-brillman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/10\/11\/industry-workshop-10-12-ruth-brillman\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry workshop 10\/12 - Ruth Brillman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;careers for linguists&#8221; workshop will host our very own <b>Ruth Brillman (PhD 2017)<\/b>, who is currently an engineering manager for Google Search and works right around\u00a0the corner from us. She&#8217;ll join us <b>in person<\/b> for a Q&amp;A about her path to industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When<\/strong>: Wednesday, 10\/12, 2-3:30pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Where<\/strong>: 32-D461 or on zoom (email me for a link)<\/p>\n<div>Here is a short blurb from Ruth: <\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I graduated from MIT with a PhD in Linguistics in 2017, where I specialized in syntax (primarily) and language acquisition. I\u0092ve spent the past five years in industry, mostly working on NLP projects and building software informed by a structural understanding of language. Currently, I\u0092m a software engineer at Google where I lead a small team focused on improving Google Search quality in lower-resource languages.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;careers for linguists&#8221; workshop will host our very own Ruth Brillman (PhD 2017), who is currently an engineering manager for Google Search and works right around\u00a0the corner from us. She&#8217;ll join us in person for a Q&amp;A about her path to industry. When: Wednesday, 10\/12, 2-3:30pm Where: 32-D461 or on zoom (email me for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14982,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions\/14982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}