Jordan Harrod
Harrod in March 2020.
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Born (1996-07-10) July 10, 1996 (age 27)
Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
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OccupationResearch scientist
Websitejordanharrod.com Edit this at Wikidata
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Subscribers84 thousand[1]
Total views2.01 million[1]
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Last updated: May 20, 2023

Jordan Harrod (born July 10, 1996) is an American research scientist and YouTuber who works on neuroengineering, brain-machine interfaces, and machine learning for medicine. A current graduate student at Harvard and MIT, Harrod also runs a YouTube channel to educate the public about artificial intelligence. As of January 2023, her YouTube channel has over 84 thousand subscribers and her videos have over 2 million total views.[2]

Early life and education

Harrod is from Montclair, New Jersey,[3] where she attended Montclair High School, graduating in 2014.[4] During high school, she was a member of the varsity fencing[5] and tennis[6] teams.

Harrod graduated from Cornell University in 2018 with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering.[7] During her undergraduate years, she spent one summer doing machine learning research for MRI reconstruction at Stanford University.[8] She is currently a Ph.D. student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in Harvard-MIT's Health Sciences and Technology program, where she studies using neuromodulation to understand pain and consciousness, and using neurotechnology and machine learning to develop new tools for brain stimulation.[9][10] She primarily collaborates with anesthesiologist Emery Brown and neuroscientist Ed Boyden.[8]

Harrod has been an invited public speaker at TEDxBeaconStreet, the WITI Women in Technology Summit, and Women Who Code Boston.[11][12] Her TEDx talk discussed the importance of AI literacy.[13] In 2020, she was featured by Built In as one of nine black women in data science to know.[9]

YouTube career

Harrod's YouTube channel centers around topics and current events in artificial intelligence, AI ethics, and medical technology. She started her YouTube channel because she wasn't able to find a lot of educational resources that were geared towards the average person on how people interact with algorithms.[14] Her most-watched video examines how AI proctors work and whether they can detect online exam cheating.

She is part of the Inquisitive Fellowship, an investment by Vsauce in educational creators on YouTube.[15] In August 2020, AsapSCIENCE mentioned Harrod's channel in a video discussing diversity in science.[16]

Popular YouTuber Tom Scott challenged Harrod to create a deepfake version of him, on a budget of $100, as a collaboration video. Harrod succeeded. She also discussed the technology and the dangers associated with deepfakes.[17][18]

In October 2020, Harrod joined creator community Standard and started posting her videos to Nebula, a subscription-based video sharing platform, due to YouTube's strict algorithms.[19] "There are definitely topics that I've come across that I think would be challenging to cover on YouTube," she explained to BBC. For example, if she created a video on how algorithms moderate hate speech online, YouTube's algorithms may flag that video's content as hate speech.[20]

References

  1. ^ a b "About Jordan Harrod". YouTube.
  2. ^ "Jordan Harrod - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  3. ^ "Jordan Harrod, '18 | Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering". Cornell University College of Engineering. Retrieved March 9, 2021. Hometown: Montclair, NJ
  4. ^ "The Montclair Times from Montclair, New Jersey on June 25, 2015 · C7". Newspapers.com. June 25, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2021. Jordan Harrod, a member of the Montclair High School Class of 2014, has been named to the dean's list at the Cornell University College of Engineering, Ithaca, N.Y, for the spring 2015 semester.
  5. ^ "Montclair Invitational Girls Frosh/Soph HS - 2011 Results :: FRED: Fencing Tournaments". askfred.net. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  6. ^ "Follow Jordan Harrod, Montclair — 2013-2014 Girls Tennis". highschoolsports.nj.com. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  7. ^ "Jordan Harrod, '18 | Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering". www.bme.cornell.edu. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  8. ^ a b "Jordan Harrod: Brain researcher and AI-focused YouTuber". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. August 29, 2021. Retrieved September 6, 2021.
  9. ^ a b "9 Black Women in Data Science You Should Know". Built In. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  10. ^ "Coronavirus Campus Shutdowns Hit Some Groups Especially Hard". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  11. ^ "TEDxBeaconStreet Comes To Brighton". Brookline, MA Patch. November 18, 2019. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  12. ^ International, WITI-Women In Technology (June 22, 2020). "WITI Hosts Its First Virtual Women in Technology Summit" (Press release). Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  13. ^ "AI Literacy, or Why Understanding AI Will Help You Every Day". TED: Ideas Worth Speaking. February 21, 2020.
  14. ^ "Should Robots Pay Taxes?". PCMAG. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  15. ^ "Inquisitive Fellowship". The Curiosity Box. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  16. ^ "We Need To Talk About Diversity in Science". YouTube. August 21, 2020.
  17. ^ Haysom, Sam (January 19, 2021). "YouTuber challenges scientist to create an AI version of him for $100". Mashable. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  18. ^ "Scientist Jordan Harrod Builds an "AI Tom Scott" Deepfake — on a Mere $100 Budget". Hackster.io. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  19. ^ "Is The Creator-Owned "Smart YouTuber Mafia" A New Standard For Digital Content?". Tubefilter. October 15, 2020. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  20. ^ "Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites". BBC News. March 6, 2021. Retrieved March 7, 2021.

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