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Katya Ivshina is a PhD student in Applied Mathematics at Harvard studying geometric machine learning

Katya's Instagram: @katya.ivshina

Katya's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@KatyaIvshina

YouTube канал Кати на русском: https://www.youtube.com/@ekaterinaivshina

Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(1:16) Katya’s research explained at two different levels

(23:25) What excites you about the future of this field?

(29:20) Katya’s journey to doing a PhD at Harvard

(42:20) Cultural differences in the US

(54:22) What do you do outside of research and academics?

(1:03:20) Advice for current and prospective grad students

(1:14:05) Closing question: Topological data analysis explained simply