Computer Vision News - August 2017

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Ralph: Good afternoon everybody
and welcome to our panel on STEM
recruitment. The subject of this panel
is recruitment in scientific
professions. There are plenty of ideas
about it, and I am very glad that we
have a very diverse panel with
persons which will help us to have a
very enriching and passionate debate.
I thank the public for being here and I
thank the panelists as well. I would
like everyone to introduce himself or
herself so we can get started.
Tianli: I am Tianli Yu, the CEO of
Morpx. We are a start-up company
based in Hangzhou, China. We make
toy robots using Computer Vision and AI.
Terrence: My name is Terrence Chen. I
am a senior director at Siemens
Healthineers, and I am located in
Princeton, New Jersey. We are an
organisation within the Siemens
Healthcare Technology Center.
Julie: I am Julie Kemp, I am a principal
recruiter at which is a
subsidiary of Amazon. I have been in
technical recruiting for over 20 years
and I have been focusing on computer
vision hiring for the last 7 years.
Xin: My name is Xin Chen. I work at
HERE technologies and I am based in
Chicago. I am a senior manager, and
we work on high-definition maps for
self-driving cars.
Ralph: We often hear catastrophic
predictions about the availability of
technical talent in the next few years.
Some people say we will lack millions
of engineers and computer scientist.
Do you agree?
Julie: Specifically in the US they state
that there is going to be about 1.4
million new CS jobs coming up in the
next few years, and the US universities
can only handle about 29% of that. So
we really need to think about hiring as
a global decision. We have to focus on
looking for where the talent might be,
and hiring there and really seeking out
the best people across the world.
Terrence: What I see from here from
CVPR, the conference becomes much
larger every year. At least from the
domain of AI and computer vision I
think there are much more students
interested in these domains, and
joining these domains. So in general
for STEM I think there might be a lack
of students or workforce, but for AI
and computer vision I am very
optimistic.
Ralph: I would like to follow up with
something that Julie just said, on the
use from the US of talent that comes
from elsewhere. There are many
overseas markets which find it quite
Expo Spotlight Panel
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The Impending STEMWorkforce Shortage:
How to attract top talent, regardless!
Moderator: Ralph Anzarouth (Marketing Manager, RSIP Vision)
Panelists:
Dr. Terrence Chen (Sr. Director, Siemens Healthineers),
(CEO, Morpx),
Julie Kemp (Principal Recruiter, , an Amazon company),
Dr. Xin Chen (Sr. Engineering Manager, HERE Technologies; Adjunct Professor,
Northwestern University and Illinois Institute of Technology).
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