Adriel Saporta

<p>I’m a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the Courant Institute at NYU working on multimodal representation learning and AI for health, and advised by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://rajesh-lab.github.io/">Rajesh Ranganath</a>. I’m a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.deepmind.com/scholarships">DeepMind Scholar</a> and an advisor to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://alphaxiv.org/">alphaXiv</a>. I’m also a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://shaktivc.com/">Shakti VC Fellow</a> and co-hosted <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-health-podcast/id1542731019">The AI Health Podcast</a> with <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://rajpurkar.github.io/">Pranav Rajpurkar</a>.</p><p>Before joining NYU, I worked on research on Apple’s Health AI team and in Andrew Ng’s <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://stanfordmlgroup.github.io/">Stanford Machine Learning Group</a>. In a previous life, I was Anna Wintour’s executive assistant at Vogue (remember The Devil Wears Prada?), and I’ve held engineering and product roles across both big tech (Apple, Amazon) and start-ups (SeatGeek, Common).</p><p>I have an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, and am half-Cuban and half-Greek.</p>