Machine Learning Experts - Sasha Luccioni

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Hey friends! Welcome to Machine Learning Experts. I'm your host, Britney Muller and today’s guest is Sasha Luccioni. Sasha is a Research Scientist at Hugging Face where she works on the ethical and societal impacts of Machine Learning models and datasets.

Sasha is also a co-chair of the Carbon Footprint WG of the Big Science Workshop, on the Board of WiML, and a founding member of the Climate Change AI (CCAI) organization which catalyzes impactful work applying machine learning to the climate crisis.

You’ll hear Sasha talk about how she measures the carbon footprint of an email, how she helped a local soup kitchen leverage the power of ML, and how meaning and creativity fuel her work.

Very excited to introduce this brilliant episode to you! Here’s my conversation with Sasha Luccioni:

Note: Transcription has been slightly modified/reformatted to deliver the highest-quality reading experience.

Thank you so much for joining us today, we are so excited to have you on!

Sasha: I'm really excited to be here.

Diving right in, can you speak to your background and what led you to Hugging Face?

Sasha: Yeah, I mean if we go all the way back, I started studying linguistics. I was super into languages and both of my parents were mathematicians. But I thought, I don't want to do math, I want to do language. I started doing NLP, natural language processing, during my undergrad and got super into it.

I wanted to be in a place that I trusted was doing the right things and going in the right direction. When I met Thom and Clem, I knew that Hugging Face was a place for me and that it would be exactly what I was looking for.

Love that you wanted to something that felt meaningful!

What are you most excited about that you're working on now?

Love the idea of evaluating the carbon footprint of an email!?

Sasha: Thanks, Britney.