Presenter

Dr. Avani Wildani is a computer scientist who currently leads AI research efforts at Cloudflare. Avani is also the co-PI of the SimBioSys lab at Emory University, where she was previously a professor, and before that was a Pioneer Research Fellow at the Salk Institute. She earned her B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and her Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz under Dr. Ethan Miller. Her interests are centered around information storage and retrieval across different storage models, with application domains including access prediction, data deduplication, archival economics, power management, wireless mesh networks, auditory receptive field characterization, and pollution monitoring.