Tal Rabin Interview

Immigrant Computer Scientists

Episode 28: Interview with Tal Rabin, Prof CIS at Univ. Pennsylvania, and Head of Research at Algorand Foundation (blockchain). Ranked by Business Insider (2014) as #4 on List of "22 Most Powerful Women Engineers in World". Ranked by Forbes (2018) among "The World's Top 50 Women In Tech". ACM Fellow, IACR Fellow. Founder of "Women in Theory" Conference. Immigrant from Israel in 1994.

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1. Biography (00:03:04)

2. Early Childhood and Schooling, 1960s and 70s (00:06:24)

3. Her Mother, a lawyer, as her role model (00:10:36)

4. What languages do you think in? (00:16:20)

5. Going to University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), 1980s (00:21:53)

6. An officer in the Israeli Army, and Serving in the Lebanon War and Intifada, early to mid 1980s (00:25:18)

7. Getting into Research, 1980s and 90s (00:32:35)

8. Women and Diversity: Her observations of women around her in STEM/Tech (00:38:17)

9. Immigrating to US. Always wanting to return to Israel. 1994 (00:46:44)

10. A researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 1996-2019 (00:54:42)

11. What should research labs become? The changing face of research labs from 1996 to 2019 (00:56:17)

12. Why leave IBM Research for academia? 2019-Present (00:59:37)

13. Outreach efforts: Why she started the “Women in Theory” Group/Conference/Workshop (and Network) (01:03:20)

14. Retrospectives and Perspectives (01:06:53)

15. Dealing with Failures and Rejections (01:07:53)

16. Dealing with Impostor Syndrome (01:09:07)

17. When some compare her to her father Michael O. Rabin (01:11:16)

18. If you grew up in the US, would have life and career been different? (All else being equal)  (01:14:25)