While technology has no gender, women are considered to have been under-represented in the industry. Although the picture in China is reported to be better than in other parts of the world, it is believed that more could be done to create a favourable environment to encourage more female talents to start in tech and to empower those who have already chosen this rewarding career.
Dao Insights spoke with Xiaoman Hu, the director of the MindSpore Community (a Chinese Institute of Electronics Expert) and the founder of MSG (MindSpore Study Group) · Women in Tech, a community that is now part of Huawei’s Official Women in Tech Initiative.
In this conversation, we gained insights into the experience of women who have devoted themselves to the tech industry in China.
An introduction to Xiaoman Hu and her career progression at Huawei and the MindSpore Community.
Hu joined Huawei in April 2020 to manage operations for MindSpore. Developed by Huawei, MindSpore is a new addition to popular AI frameworks like Google’s TensorFlow and Facebook’s PyTorch with comparable capabilities but 20% fewer lines of code. Launched in September 2019, it is endorsed by major universities including Peking University, University of Edinburgh, and Imperial College London. Today, MindSpore boasts over a 1.3million downloads and an interactive community indicated by over 19,000 issues, over 52,000 pull requests, and over 16,000 stars (the equivalent of a ‘like’ amongst developers).
Hu started her career as an algorithm engineer, which eventually led her to write a widely read blog on machine learning algorithms. It garnered over five million views thanks to its engaging and easy-to-understand method of presenting the information.
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