Jadie Adams is a Senior R&D engineer on Kitware’s Computer Vision Team. She earned her Computing Ph.D. (image analysis track) from the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. She did her undergraduate at Westminster University in Salt Lake City where she earned a B.S. in Mathematics with Honors Certificate and minored in Physics and Computer Science.

Prior to working at Kitware, she interned at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) on the Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy (MLIA) team. For her project she collaborated with a team of data scientists and cosmologists to develop a probabilistic machine learning model for cosmic microwave background recovery from full sky maps. Before her Ph.D., she worked at Sorenson on the Speech Sciences and Machine Learning Team as an AI/Speech Scientist II where she designed and implemented ML/NLP algorithms to enhance automatic speech recognition for telephone captioning.

Awards

• Best Oral Presentation in the STACOM Workshop at the MICCAI 2022 conference

• Best Paper Runner-Up in the ShapeMI Workshop at the MICCAI 2020 conference

Invited Talks & Media

• ARCS Forward, National Scholars Speaker Series “Machine Learning and Algorithms” February 2022