New Podcast! Immigrant Computer Scientist hosted by Indy Gupta

Like stories? About immigrants? Who are also Computer Scientists? In the Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast, distinguished and renowned Computer Scientists from both academia and industry narrate their personal experiences of immigrating from where they grew up, to a completely different land (often the US), for study, work, or other reasons. This podcast, featuring these oral history interviews, is intended for a general audience, and does not require you to know Computer Science or Math or any science, or even be an immigrant! We neither draw conclusions nor take sides in any political debate—this podcast documents experiences. Listen, Enjoy, Learn! For more information and episode guides visit: http://csimmigrant.org/

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Host: Indy Gupta

Indy Gupta is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Indy leads the Distributed Protocols Research Group and the BOCCE Cloud Center in the CS Department at UIUC. He works on distributed protocols, with specific focus on large-scale distributed systems such as datacenters and cloud computing systems. Indy is recipient of the the NSF CAREER award in 2005, the Junior Xerox Award for Faculty Research in 2008, the CAS/Beckman Fellowship in 2009, and the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Faculty Fellowship in 2010. He has won Best Paper Awards at IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2017, IEEE IC2E 2016, IEEE ICAC 2015 and BigMine 2012. Indy received teaching recognition in the UIUC “List of Teachers ranked as Excellent” multiple times since 2003. He served as General Chair of ACM PODC 2007; PC co-chair at HotCloud 2018, IC2E 2017, ICCAC 2016, DeMIST 2016, ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware 2010, IEEE SASO 2010, StoDiS 2005; Track chair at ICDCS 2015; and Associate Track Vice Chair at ICDCS 2008. Previously, Indy received his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2004. Recently, during 2011-2012 he spent an awesome year as a full-time Google employee (Visiting Scientist at Google, Mountain View). In the past, he has also worked in IBM Research (T.J. Watson) and Microsoft Research (Cambridge, UK). Indy obtained his Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai/Madras, in 1998. He is originally from Hyderabad (India), where he was schooled in St. Patrick’s H.S., HPS(R), and LFJC. He has also been a Gold Medalist at India’s National Physics Olympiad, and recipient of India’s NTSE Scholarship. Since 2005, Indy has hosted a music radio show called “East of Zero” on the community radio station WEFT 90.1 FM in Champaign, Illinois.

Episode 1 – From A Country That No Longer Exists

In this inaugural episode, host Indy Gupta speaks with Nenad Medvidovic (IEEE Fellow, Professor at USC), Jelena Mirkovic (Research Professor at USC), and Dejan Milojicic (IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Technologist at HP Labs), discussing their immigration from the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s and 1990s and how they adapted in the United States. Highlights of this talk include how each of these guests navigated failure, rejection, and imposter syndrome.

Episode 2 – Nenad Medvidovic Interview

This episode is the second in a four part series about computer scientists who immigrated from the former Yugoslavia in pursuit of education and career. This week host, Indy Gupta, interviews Nenad Medvidovic about his journey coming to the United States with little to no English, and how he was able to transform failure and rejection into becoming a professor, leader in the software community, and an IEEE Fellow.

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