Rachel Thomas
Co-founder, fast.ai

Website | @math_rachel

Rachel Thomas was selected by Forbes as one of “20 Incredible Women in AI”, was an early engineer at Uber, and earned her math PhD at Duke. She is co-founder of fast.ai, which created the “Practical Deep Learning for Coders” course that over 200,000 students have taken, and she is also a professor at the University of San Francisco Data Institute. Rachel is a popular writer and keynote speaker on the topics of data science ethics, bias, machine learning, and technical education. Her writing has been read by nearly a million people and has made the front page of Hacker News 9×.