Looking back, I don’t see shortages & failures, just opportunities to grow stronger. From economic hardship to an opportunity for education. From a nearly failed AI class to a career in AI. From living under a travel ban to visiting ~50 countries. Failure is a recipe for success.

All 3 #Romania episodes available now on Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast podcast! Free! No ads! Legendary Professors, untold stories! *Full Romania Episode EP31: tinyurl.com/csimmep31 *Ion Stoica Interview EP32: tinyurl.com/csimmep32 *Rada Mihalcea Interview EP33: tinyurl.com/csimmep33

Rada Mihalcea Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast All 3 #Romania episodes available now on Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast podcast! Free! No ads! Legendary Professors, untold stories! *Full Romania Episode EP31: tinyurl.com/csimmep31 *Ion Stoica Interview EP32: tinyurl.com/csimmep32 *Rada Mihalcea Interview EP33: tinyurl.com/csimmep33

No money for college, started work after high school. With a CS PhD from #Mexico, she dreamt of becoming Prof, but rejected at all US univs. Meet Thamar Solorio thamar | Prof U #Houston, & Top NLP researcher! On Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast Episode 34! Listen free tinyurl.com/csimmep34

Salary negotiation tips by Thamar Solorio thamar | from Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast Episode 34: tinyurl.com/csimmep34 1 Know the ranges, 2 Do your research (eg Taulbee survey), 3 Break down what you need, 4 Ask for it, 5 All reasonable demands will be met if they want you to succeed

(1 min snippet) By Thamar Solorio thamar | "I wasn't able to continue studies after high school, and so I started working." "I applied to multiple positions, but didn't get even a single phone interview." "If you don't get rejected, you're not trying hard enough."

Yay! JamCoders applications open! Coders in Jamaica! Last year on my Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast podcast, Jelani Nelson Jelani Nelson spoke about AddisCoder, the very successful precursor! In Chapters 8 & 9 of EP13 (you can also hear Jelani’s amazing origin story!): tinyurl.com/csimmep13

New episode is out today!

(1 min) “The university was a sacred land for police in #Chile, but under Pinochet they entered & took many people.” Ricardo Baeza-Yates Ricardo Baeza-Yates about 1970s+80s in #Chile: Computing, Pinochet’s brutal regime, & universities. Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast Episode 35: tinyurl.com/csimmep35

Anonymous 2! Season 2 Finale . Featuring: 1) Hate mail received by us at the podcast, 2) Code Talkers, 3) A snippet from Judge KBJ's SCOTUS hearing, & 4) Anonymous story of Sarah, stuck in immigration limbo *inside* the US. Listen to EP 36 Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast: tinyurl.com/csimmep36

Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast Earlier this year I received my first hate mail directed at my @csimmigant podcast. Asking me to "back off" from doing it. Want to hear my response? Listen to Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast EP 36: tinyurl.com/csimmep36

Have you ever compared yourself to others? Some do it daily, some all the time! 7 IIT-Madras '98 graduates talk about this human instinct. 3 Startup Founders, 3 Industry Long-Timers, 1 Prof. Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast #India #IIT #ImpostorSyndrome Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast EP37: tinyurl.com/csimmep37

I spoke with 7 distinguished Computer Scientists about how they handle #ImpostorSyndrome, #failures, & #rejections. Episode 38 Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast #podcast: tinyurl.com/csimmep38 W/ @GluckmanPratima Regina Barzilay Tal Rabin Ion Stoica Rada Mihalcea thamar | Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast @GluckmanPratima Regina Barzilay Tal Rabin Rada Mihalcea thamar | Ricardo Baeza-Yates Also still available (and still free!) -- the first #ImpostorSyndrome Episode! Features 10 stalwart Computer Scientists from Season 1 of my Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast podcast. EP16: tinyurl.com/csimmep16

How did you first start in research? Was it a conscious choice? Or...pure chance? Here's 5 famous Computer Scientists whose careers started w/ random chance! EP 39 Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast #podcast: tinyurl.com/csimmep39 W/ Rada Mihalcea Tal Rabin Regina Barzilay Moshe Vardi thamar |

As scientists, we like to plan, but sometime all it takes is just taking a chance. My own pure chance? Some 25 yrs ago, an email sent to me by mistake that made me move to US to pursue a PhD in CS. Love the stories of these amazing scientists brought to us … by chance 🤞

Family or Career? Alas, some women choose one over other. You can have both! Two guests--a Professor and an Entrepreneur--talk about how they navigated this pivotal juncture of their lives. W/ Soodeh Farokhi thamar | EP 40 Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast #podcast: tinyurl.com/csimmep40

As an immigrant, have you wondered:"If I was born in US, would I have turned out different?" Here's 7 famous Computer Scientists on it! EP 41 Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast #podcast: tinyurl.com/csimmep41 W/ Ion Stoica, Rada Mihalcea Tal Rabin Regina Barzilay Moshe Vardi thamar | Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Have you ever used a punched card computer? A keypunch machine? Did you experience early days as the world moved to terminals? As email arrived? Here's 3 famous Computer Scientists on it! EP 42 Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast #podcast: tinyurl.com/csimmep42 W/ Rico Malvar, Moshe Vardi , Tal Rabin

Illness...While we Computer Scientists study computers, we are quite...human. Here's 2 famous Computer Scientists showing they navigated life-threatening illnesses, & how it shaped their careers. EP 43 Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast #podcast: tinyurl.com/csimmep43 W/ Regina Barzilay Ricardo Baeza-Yates