About: Dr. Aisha Patel spent eight years as a machine learning engineer at Google before leaving to write about technology for humans. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and has a gift for explaining neural networks using analogies involving cats, cooking, and terrible dating decisions. Her newsletter has 200,000 subscribers. She lives in San Francisco with her partner and a very judgmental parrot named Ada.
Dr. Aisha Patel spent eight years as a machine learning engineer at Google before leaving to write about technology for humans. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and has a gift for explaining neural networks using analogies involving cats, cooking, and terrible dating decisions. Her newsletter has 200,000 subscribers. She lives in San Francisco with her partner and a very judgmental parrot named Ada. Member since July 2026.