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Ascina NY Leadership Update + Community Meetup + Survey
Dear Members of the Ascina NY Chapter,
We hope you get to enjoy the last few days of fall before winter sets in. We are Lucas Liebenwein and Konstantin Krismer, and we are excited to introduce ourselves as the new leadership of the Ascina Greater NY Chapter.
We have recently taken over the chapter leadership from Christine Marizzi and Claudia Wultsch who served in this role over multiple years from pre-pandemic times until now. Thank you, Christine and Claudia, for your leadership and we hope to keep you as active members of the chapter in the future.
As the newly minted chapter heads and long-time members of Ascina, we believe in fostering an engaging and open community among Austrian-affiliated scientists and scholars in North America. We hope to continue building a strong hub for the broader scientific and scholarly community in Greater New York, reinforce personal connections, and promote the excellent people and their work that make up this chapter.
As we are settling into our roles, we have compiled a couple of updates for you, including a short 1-min member survey and an invitation to a community meetup. Please take a look below!
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Introduction
Lucas: After growing up in Vienna, I lived and studied in various places (Switzerland, Singapore, Argentina) before coming to Boston for my PhD. I spent 5 years at MIT where my research focused on autonomous driving and robotics before shifting to machine learning. Currently, I am at Nvidia where I manage a team of scientists and engineers working on algorithmic optimization for large-scale deployment of neural networks.
Konstantin: I grew up in Salzburg and spent some formative student years in Vienna, but moved to the US relatively early in my academic career, first for a short stint as a visiting undergraduate student, then as a PhD student at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. I work on problems in bioinformatics and computational biology, and more recently in applied machine learning for clinical data in oncology at Roche.
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Survey
We have compiled a short survey for us to learn more about you and to receive feedback on how you would like to see our chapter continue evolving:
Link to Survey
Your responses to this form will give us a much better idea of how the members of the Greater NY chapter would like to engage with each other. We kept it short on purpose, so this should take less than a minute.
We also encourage you to take a look at your membership profile at this time and make sure it?s up-to-date with your latest information.
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Community Meetup
We want to take the chance to get to know you in person and invite you all to join the next Austrians in NY meetup on
Monday, November 6th, 6:30 PM @ Cafe Katja, 79 Orchard St, New York.
Here is the link to the event for more info.
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If you want to get to know us or have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at greater.ny@ascina.at or meet with us in person next week at Cafe Katja. You can also learn more about our chapter on our website.
We look forward to getting to know many of you!
Lucas Liebenwein
President, Ascina Greater NY Chapter
Konstantin Krismer
Co-President, Ascina Greater NY Chapter
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