Updates
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Let’s Talk Science is an organization that’s extremely close to my heart. This year, they’re celebrating their 30th anniversary by sharing alumni stories. You can read my story on the Let’s Talk Science website and see my LinkedIn post about it here.
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This week I talked to Jam at The Conversologist podcast about conversational AI! We talk about improving the customer experience, the jump from deterministic AI to generative AI, and data privacy considerations. Jam asked some great questions: She also gives a great summary of the episode in her LinkedIn post. I hope you enjoy the
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I’m a proud graduate of the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Science and am honoured to have been featured in their Because of Science at UWindsor series.
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This week I was the guest on the MultiPod: the podcast run by the creative team at The Puttyverse. For the uninitiated, The Puttyverse is a community of multipotentialites. This is a term coined by Emilie Wapnick for those of us without “One True Calling.” When I initially joined the community I was invited to
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In 2020 I was an on-camera expert for the Discovery+ series I Got Lucky: Survival Stories. I appeared in eleven episodes to explain the physics of surviving a 20ft drop over a waterfall, an exploding skydiving plane, and losing control of your car over the side of a mountain. I Got Lucky: Survival Stories Explore some of the
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Eight years after we met in our first year physics lab, I married my lab partner! I have an incredible husband and a new name: Mrs. Melissa Valdez. Above: an engagement photo in the University of Windsor physics lab where we first met.
Melissa Valdez, MSc 