Louvere Walker-Hannon |
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Application Engineering Senior Team Lead
Mathworks |
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Virtual Workshop Instructor: How can we make sense of the unseen world? Using AI, sensors, and IoT for scene exploration
Description: Have you wondered about being able to detect buried objects? Do you think your mobile device can be used to detect these buried objects? Metal is all around us and is often not seen but buried.
The detection of metal is in many places on Earth. In fact the detection of metal is connected to a variety of applications such as: to provide insight regarding land use, detection of historic artifacts, determine the presence of various devices, and more. In our workshop, we will explore using your own mobile device as a metal detector in your local environment. During this workshop we will provide an overview of the basics of sensors, AI, and IoT which will be required for building a prototype of our application. We’ll do hands-on exercises where you will acquire data from sensors, obtain summary statistics on the acquired data, and train a human activity classifier to understand what was done while data was being collected. We will also have an engaged discussion regarding topics to be mindful of with respect to this application such as considerations regarding the collection and usage of location data. You will leave motivated and ready to use sensors, AI, and IoT in your own projects via MATLAB! |
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Biography:
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Louvere is a MathWorks Application Engineering Senior Team Lead, who provides technical guidance and strategic direction to a team of Application Engineers and customers. She has a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering and a master’s degree in Geographic Information Technology with a specialization in Remote Sensing. Based on her fields of study, she provides strategic direction and technical guidance to team members and customers regarding the following topics image processing, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, geospatial analysis, data analytics, and data science. Louvere has worked in three different engineering roles throughout her 20 plus year career while at MathWorks. A prominent theme in her career is communication of technical concepts to various audiences and being involved with STEM education.
She was also a Program Presenter, in this role she was the lead educator of STEM topics for Cahners ComputerPlace within the Boston Museum of Science. Louvere has presented and continues to present at several STEM related conferences on various topics. Louvere has presented at the Grace Hopper Celebration, WiDS, American Meteorological Society, American Association of Geographers (AAG), the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Conference, and other organizations. She is an active STEM advocate. Louvere volunteers with Black Girls CODE, the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and WiDS. She is a Curriculum Lead for the Boston Chapter of Black Girls CODE, a SWE African American Affinity Group Co-Lead, a SWE Latinos Affinity Group Professional Development Lead, and a Pre-Collegiate Initiative (PCI) Chair for NSBE Boston. She recently became a WiDS Ambassador in 2022 and has a long history of serving as a STEM mentor. She is also a recent recipient of the SWE WE Local 2022 Engaged Advocate Award which honors individuals who contributed to the advancement or acceptance of women in engineering. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering, advocating for STEM Youth outreach for underrepresented groups in STEM, and helping as many people as possible via her work and volunteerism. |
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