Louvere Walker-Hannon is a MathWorks senior application engineer who provides direction and recommendations on technical workflows for various applications. Specifically, she assists with image processing, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, geospatial analysis, and data analytics when discussing technical workflows. Louvere has worked in three different engineering roles throughout her 20-year career while at MathWorks. A prominent theme in her career is communication of technical concepts to various audiences and being involved with STEM education. She was also a program presenter. In this role she was the lead educator of STEM topics for Cahners ComputerPlace within the Boston Museum of Science.

Louvere is a member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). She has a long history of serving as a STEM mentor. Louvere volunteers with Black Girls Code and SWE. She is a curriculum lead for the Boston Chapter of Black Girls Code, a co-lead of the SWE Latinos Affinity Group, and a society engagement lead for the SWE African American Affinity Group. She has a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering and a master’s degree in geographic information technology with a specialization in remote sensing. Louvere has presented and continues to present at several STEM-related conferences on various topics. She recently presented her work on a natural language processing application at the 100th American Meteorological Society in January 2020 and at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) virtual conference in April 2020. She also assists with organizing conferences in addition to presenting at them. In July 2020 she served as one the virtual chairs of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), and she is one of the meetup chairs for the 34th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), scheduled for December 2020.

Brenda Zhuang is a software engineering manager and leads a team that develops software tools for automatic deployment of embedded applications in microprocessors and FPGAs. Brenda has contributed to the development and evolution of many new features in the MATLAB and Simulink product families. She also builds deployment examples using MATLAB and Simulink that pump the heart, chase a model race car, and score target practice. Brenda received her Ph.D. in system engineering from Boston University and M.S. in electrical and electronics engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  She serves on technical program committees for the international conferences in modeling and simulation. She serves as judge in the MathWorks Math Modeling Challenges for high school students. She is a facilitator for a local Girls Who Code club and a coach for a regional Science Bowl team and Robotics team. 

Sara Nadeau is an engineering technical writer at MathWorks with four years of experience writing the best-in-class, highly technical documentation MathWorks is known for. Before joining MathWorks, she worked for three years as an engineer at Cascodium Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in circuit and PCB design. She holds a B.S. from the University of Maine in electrical and electronics engineering.

Sara is passionate about DEI and opening access to STEM careers and education. She has mentored students at the Boston Museum of Science, led a Girls Who Code club, and volunteered with professional organizations, including SWE and NSBE. As part of the MathWorks GHC19 team, Sara helped prepare and test content for the workshops “Pocket AI and IoT,” “How to Do AI with Things That Fly,” and “Edge AI with Raspberry Pi.” She served as a TA for all three workshop sessions in Orlando. She has also blogged about MathWorks and its presence at GHC18 and GHC19. In January 2020 she was part of the MathWorks speaker team that delivered the “Pocket AI and IoT” workshop, originally built for GHC19, at the Yale Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics. See more in the Yale CUWiP Twitter moment.

Shruti Karulkar is the Quality Engineering lead for Test & Measurement and MATLAB hardware. Shruti’s team of highly creative engineers designs and implements cutting-edge tools to qualify MATLAB and Simulink support for hardware, ranging from simple Arduino, Raspberry Pi, iOS, and Android phones to high-end RF signal generators, as well as the open IoT platform ThingSpeak. Shruti has helped teach the maker classes “Fun with Arduino” and “Fun with Raspberry Pi” to hundreds of attendees. Shruti has volunteered at Boston STEM Week and at the Russell School Scratch Coding Club.

Sarah Mohamed is a software engineer on the Statistics and Machine Learning team, where she works on tools for sharing AI models among deep learning frameworks. She has worked on various projects, from calling models by interfacing with external languages to deep neural network deployment on GPUs. In her past role as a customer-facing engineer, she helped users investigate and overcome technical challenges in their own applications. Sarah holds a master’s degree in computational science and engineering from Harvard University and a B.S. in computer science from the University of Virginia.

P.J. Boardman is the director of Education Marketing, managing a worldwide team responsible for product marketing strategy from K–12 through higher education. She is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Corporate Membership Council for P–12 Education. P.J. has a B.A. in mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross and an M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts in instructional design and is a Rotary International Scholar, Universidad de Santiago, Spain.