Anna Gautier

PhD student in Artificial Intelligence at Oxford. Tweets are mostly about wine, politics, and diversity in tech. she/her.

[Michael Wooldridge @wooldridgemike]

Congrats to @AnnaLGautier passed DPhil today! One of the generation of DPhils who had to cope with the most difficult of circumstances but you came through with a fantastic thesis 🙂 @hawesie and me could not be happier!

[Anna Gautier @AnnaLGautier]

@wooldridgemike @hawesie Thanks Mike! I was lucky to have you and @hawesie as my supervisors :)

[Anna Gautier @AnnaLGautier]

@mmattamala It looks awesome! Can we start and ORI crochet + knitting club?

[Anna Gautier @AnnaLGautier]

@DQPWines @OUblindtasting Thanks so much!!

[Anna Gautier @AnnaLGautier]

@PSUSteve1 @OUblindtasting ❤️❤️❤️

[Anna Gautier @AnnaLGautier]

@rhbBSE Looks like a chestnut roaster

[Goal-Oriented Autonomous Long-Lived Systems @GOALS_oxford]

Yesterday we had an amazing day finding out about @bossanova’s awesome robots, engineers and approaches to long-term autonomy in that most challenging of environments: supermarkets.

[Drew Harwell @drewharwell]

Black women were more likely to be misidentified in the kind of facial-recognition scans police use for arrests. That's scary, since the FBI, ICE and police have run hundreds of thousands of facial searches in last several years https://t.co/QFA760RIV3

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

@nytopinion Here is what was in the data: More than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans, across several major cities. @stuartathompson and I then spent months reporting on how we are all tracked through apps on our phones. https://t.co/CTzq1cEt4m

[Engineering Science, Oxford @oxengsci]

Good luck to Nick and Anna from @oxengsci, both of whom are competing in the #MachineLearning
Zone!

[Anna Gautier @AnnaLGautier]

Thrilled to have the opportunity to present some recent work yesterday!

[Nick Hawes @hawesie]

Huge congrats to @AnnaLGautier for giving an amazing talk on her DPhil research at the @aims_oxford conference today. We’re looking forward to the next steps with @oxfordrobots and @wooldridgemike.

[WIRED @WIRED]

A new paper looking at gender bias in awarding of research positions examined two situations: when people on the award committees were aware of the test, and the year after, when they probably did not realize the test was being repeated. via @arstechnica https://t.co/1Rmq3x9xY2

[DEF CON VotingVillage @VotingVillageDC]

That’s a wrap! Thank you everyone who attended the #VotingVillage2019. Here’s some things our attendees discovered this year. Please look forward to our full report in the fall and special thanks to our hackers and scribes for all their hard work.

[POLITICO @politico]

Millions of Americans vote with paperless voting machines — devices that security experts say can be undetectably hacked and offer no way to audit the results when errors occur https://t.co/jDE8HRQoJh

[NOVA | PBS @novapbs]

A complex tangle of social factors may encourage girls to prioritize verbal skills from a young age. But being excellent at reading doesn’t make a person bad at math—no matter their gender.
https://t.co/Y0eeibptqy

[Rachel Thomas @math_rachel]

An audit of a resume screening algorithm found that the two factors most indicative of job performance were being named Jared and playing high school lacrosse
https://t.co/dCJQV3LKR6

[Ruinart @MaisonRuinart]

Big congrats to @UniofOxford. They are taking home the honour of winning and an enviable selection of fine wines thanks to @iDealwine 🏆

[Anna Gautier @AnnaLGautier]

Thanks so much for having us. It was a truly incredible day!

[Ruinart @MaisonRuinart]

Good luck to Anna competing for the first with her team from @UniofOxford in today’s CA’VIT tasting competition!

[Real Sports @RealSportsHBO]

Competitive blind wine tasting? Wine not?

The slurping, swirling, and spitting starts tomorrow at 10PM on an all-new #RealSports on @HBO.

[WIRED @WIRED]

A new study indicates that Facebook’s automated advertising system—which earns the company tens of billions of dollars in revenue each year—may be breaking civil rights laws. And the issue is with Facebook itself, not with the way businesses use it https://t.co/FkV5cs9jm3