Stefania Druga is an independent researcher and former research scientist at Google DeepMind who works on novel multimodal AI applications. She has a master's degree from MIT and a PhD from UW and has been doing research on AI education since 2015. During graduate school, she built the first open source platform for K-12 AI education: Cognimates. When she isn’t coding and writing papers, she enjoys trail running, doing yoga, and riding her bicycle.