Marina Rose Geldard, more commonly known as Mars, is a Honours-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)--or mouthing off about why everyone should love data science as much as she does--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) as well as the national Executive Council of the AUC. In the time she has left she is writing a book.
For professional information please see her resume.
- O'Reilly Open Source Conference Portland 2019 (Workshop Presenter)
- Strata Data Conference London 2019 (Speaker)
- Artificial Intelligence Conference New York 2019 (Speaker)
- Reinforce AI Conference Budapest 2019 (Speaker)
- Software Architecture Conference New York 2019 (Speaker)
- CreateWorld Conference 2018 (Speaker)
- Artificial Intelligence Conference San Francisco 2018 (Speaker)
- /dev/world Developer Conference 2018 (Speaker)
- O'Reilly Open Source Conference Portland 2018 (Speaker)
- /dev/world Developer Conference 2017 (Lightning Talk Speaker)
- LinuxConf Australia 2017 (Lightning Talk Speaker)
- Invited to be a reviewer and praise quote provider for Erica Sadun's Swift Style, second edition (2019)
- Awarded The University Club Tasmania Honours Scholarship (2019)
- Nominated to national Executive Council for the AUC (2019)
- Completed undergraduate degree with a perfect Grade Point Average, was admitted to the Dean's Honour Roll (2018)
- 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)
- Worked 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 Academic Award (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-)
