159 - Dawn Finzi: From Vision Neuroscience to ML Engineering (Psychologist in the Wild Series)

Elizabeth chats with Dr. Dawn Finzi, a Machine Learning engineer on the Perception team at Zoox, and a recent alumni of our very own Stanford’s Department of Psychology, as a part of our new Psychologist in the Wild series. During her PhD, Dawn studied the functional organization of the human visual system, focusing on both the structural underpinnings and the overarching computational goals. In this episode, Dawn shares her scientific journey from PhD to industry, and how her PhD experience translates to her current role at Zoox. If you found this episode interesting at all,

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159 - Dawn Finzi: From Vision Neuroscience to ML Engineering (Psychologist in the Wild Series) is an episode from Stanford Psychology Podcast by Stanford Psychology.

This episode is 26:17 long.

This episode was published on Oct 16, 2025.

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