Marina Rose Geldard, more commonly known as Mars, is a third-year Computing student from Down Under in Tasmania. Entering the world of technology relatively late as a mature-aged student, she has found her place in the world: an industry where she can apply her lifelong love of mathematics and optimisation. When she is not busy being the most annoyingly eager student ever at the University of Tasmania (UTAS), she compulsively volunteers at industry events, tutors, hikes around in the wilderness, dabbles in research, builds Game of Thrones in Minecraft, and serves on the Executive Committee for her state's branch of the Australian Computer Society (ACS).
For professional information please see her resume.
- Nominated to national Executive Council for the AUC (2019)
- Employed as a research assistant/developer on key machine learning project for public safety under the University of Tasmania's Data, Knowledge and Decisions research theme (2018)
- Signed on with O'Reilly Media to write Practical Artificial Intelligence with Swift (2018, for 2019 release)
- Awarded WWDC Scholarship for the submission ProTeGen, a Swift Playground Book that teaches simple procedural terrain generation (2018)
- Awarded AUC Travel Support Scholarship for WWDC Attendance (2018)
- Working on final-year university software project with Savage, the creators of multi-award winning app Procreate (2018)
- Employed as a tutor of first-year University of Tasmania Artificial Intelligence course while in third-year Undergraduate studies (2018)
- Nominated to state Branch Executive Committee for the ACS in Tasmania (2018)
- Awarded the M.J. Rees Prize for First Year Information Systems (2017)
- Awarded GovHack prizes for Best Use of Tasmanian Historical Data, Best Data Visualisation, Excellence in Visual Design and the Digital Learning Hack Award (2017)
- Invited to, and joined, the Golden Key International Honour Society (2017)
- Lost almost 60kg once (2016-)
- O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference San Francisco 2018 (Speaker)
- /dev/world Developer Conference 2018 (Speaker)
- O'Reilly Open Source Conference Portland 2018 (Speaker)
- Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2018 (Scholarship Recipient)
- /dev/world Developer Conference 2016, 2017 (Volunteer/Minor Presenter)
- GovHack Hackathon 2016, 2017 (Participant/Volunteer)
- Superhero Daughter Day: STEM for girls 2017 (Volunteer)
- LinuxConf Australia 2017 (Sponsored Delegate/Minor Presenter)
- UHack Hackathon 2016 (Volunteer)
...along with attendance at a multitude of others both large and small.
