{"650924":{"#nid":"650924","#data":{"type":"event","title":"How to Design an Impact Career - Fall 2021 Global Career Engagement Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.inc.com\/teneshia-carr\/nashlie-sephus-jackson-mississippi-bean-path-tech-hub.html\u0022\u003EDr. Nashlie H. Sephus\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is the Applied Science manager for Amazon Artificial Intelligence (AI) focusing on fairness and identifying biases in these technologies. She formerly led the Amazon Visual Search team in Atlanta, which launched visual search for replacement parts on the Amazon Shopping app in June 2018. This technology was a result of former startup Partpic (Atlanta) being acquired by Amazon, for which she was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Prior to working at Partpic, she received her Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014 and worked for a year with Exponent technical consulting firm in New York City. Her core research areas were digital signal processing, machine learning, and computer engineering. She received her B.S. in Computer Engineering from Mississippi State University (2007).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Sephus is a native of Jackson, Mississippi, and she\u0026rsquo;s had several internships and research experiences worldwide with companies such as IBM, Delphi, University of California at Berkeley, GE Research Center, GE Energy, Miller Transporters, and Kwangwoon University in Seoul, South Korea.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2018, Dr. Sephus became the founder and CEO of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thebeanpath.org\/\u0022\u003EThe Bean Path\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;non-profit organization based in Jackson, MS, assisting individuals and startups with technical expertise and guidance. In September of 2020, she became the owner and developer of the Jackson Tech District, at least 12-acres of\u0026nbsp; mixed-use commercial real-estate in downtown Jackson to bring tech training and workforce\/economic development to the area. In addition to these, she is the co-founder of KITTLabs in Atlanta, GA which was created to assist in building equity and opportunity, targeting Black entrepreneurs in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPlease RSVP at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.campuslabs.com\/engage\/event\/7218792\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/gatech.campuslabs.com\/engage\/event\/7218792\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERefreshments will be served after speaker presentation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Join us as Amazon manager, Dr. Nashlie Sephus, shares her background and advice on how to design an impact career!  Her local and global experience has advanced Sustainable Development Goals and inspired students looking to follow in her footsteps."}],"uid":"35956","created_gmt":"2021-09-20 19:04:33","changed_gmt":"2021-09-22 13:06:25","author":"sthompson319","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-09-28T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2021-09-28T20:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-09-28T20:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-09-28 23:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-09-29 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-09-29 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"650968":{"id":"650968","type":"image","title":"How to Design an Impact Career - Fall 2021 Global Career Engagement Series","body":null,"created":"1632248419","gmt_created":"2021-09-21 18:20:19","changed":"1632259197","gmt_changed":"2021-09-21 21:19:57","alt":"","file":{"fid":"247003","name":"HG - Impact Career - Fall 2021 Global Career Engagement Series.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HG%20-%20Impact%20Career%20-%20Fall%202021%20Global%20Career%20Engagement%20Series.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HG%20-%20Impact%20Career%20-%20Fall%202021%20Global%20Career%20Engagement%20Series.png","mime":"image\/png","size":339848,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/HG%20-%20Impact%20Career%20-%20Fall%202021%20Global%20Career%20Engagement%20Series.png?itok=JbPrWeSc"}}},"media_ids":["650968"],"groups":[{"id":"1297","name":"Office of International Education"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1577","name":"career"},{"id":"1802","name":"international"},{"id":"4245","name":"intercultural"},{"id":"3532","name":"impact"},{"id":"81501","name":"Amazon"},{"id":"167258","name":"STEM"},{"id":"168996","name":"steam"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"10377","name":"Career\/Professional development"},{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"},{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"},{"id":"26411","name":"Training\/Workshop"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}