Dr. Rachel Harsley earns a spot on Crain’s Tech 50 of 2018
Dr. Rachel Harsley, alumna of the NLP Lab, continues her success story by being named one of Crain's Tech 50 of 2018.
"After becoming the first black woman to receive a doctorate in computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2017, Harsley joined Google as a coder. Before that, she built a messaging app that won the UIC Startup Challenge. The St. Louis native, whose research focused on natural language processing and machine learning, interned at Intel, GE and AT&T before joining Google."
Read more at http://www.chicagobusiness.com/section/tech-50?page=index.