Rick Marks, a professor at UNC Chapel Hill's School of Data Science and Society, shares his career journey from high school coding experiments to PlayStation R&D, Google's advanced technology group, and now academia. He discusses his longstanding interest in using context-aware AI to augment human interaction, his PhD work in computer vision for underwater robotics, and his current focus on combining generative AI with virtual reality. He also reflects on the value of industry experience in teaching and offers career advice around being a 'T-shaped' professional with both depth and breadth.
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