Getting Started with Visual Thinking — Sketchnoting is a fun way to take notes with visual thinking. Using sketchnotes to summarize and visualize complex topics such as ML research papers, online courses or tech talks has greatly helped me to better understand / remember the topics, and share my knowledge with others. What I love the…

Traditional, Digital and AI art — For the past year, I studied art fundamentals, learned how to draw and paint with traditional media and digital tools. As an ML engineer, I have been exploring how to use AI for art and design, which has become my focal interest. …

Technology, Community and Leadership — Google Developer Experts (GDEs) are individuals who are recognized by Google for our expertise in a particular Google technology or technical domain. …

Clo3D Patternmaking & Construction — I recently finished Clo3D Patternmaking & Construction which was the second course of Clo3D Virtual Fashion Design program by Parsons School of Design. The 9-week course was taught by professor Floriana Betti Bindi and I have learned so much from it. Thank you professor Betti Bindi! This post summarizes the…

An Inspiring Experience — Just got back from Google Developers ML Community Summit 2022. It was a great event organized by Soonson Kwon and his team Hee Jung and Nari Yoon from Google Global ML Developer Programs. …

Getting started: Fundamentals of Clo3D — Margaret Maynard-Reid, AI engineer & artist I just finished the first course: Fundamentals of Clo3D from the Clo3D Virtual Fashion Design program by Parsons School of Design! I have learned so much from the 9 week course and would like to share my story. I have always had a special…

An image is worth a thousand words — Written by Margaret Maynard-Reid, ML engineer & artist A few months ago, Sarah asked me a few questions about technical writing. I thought “why not just put my responses into a blog post”? …

Computer vision, art & design — I look back at my accomplishments in 2021. I worked on various applied ML projects from climate change, protecting sharks to art & design. Highlights include open-source projects, TensorFlow, computer vision, deep learning, art and design. As always, I have been busy learning and sharing my knowledge with the community! Applied ML projects ML4CC …

TF-GAN, TF Model Garden & Hub, and TFLite — This year I was invited to be a mentor of the TensorFlow organization for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). During GSoC 2021, I mentored or co-mentored three students in these product areas: TensorFlow-GAN (TF-GAN), TensorFlow Model Garden & Hub, and TensorFlow Lite (TFLite). …