Vivienne Ming

In May 2017 Ming delivered a TEDx Talk about how to make a better person. She has spoken about machine learning at Singularity University in Brazil. She spoke about artificial intelligence and neural networks at the Royal Irish Academy and the Royal Society in 2018. She has appeared on the PC Magazine podcast Fast Forward. She has been featured on BBC Radio 4 and NPR.

Ming was included in the BBC's "Top 100 Women 2017" and the Financial Times's “The OUTstanding lists: LGBT leaders and allies today", along with other awards and acknowledgments.

Ming has spoken extensively on her academic struggle early in life, which eventually led her to leave university. After struggling with depression, suicide, and homelessness, she returned ten years later and received her Bachelor of Science degree with honors in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California at San Diego in 2000. She returned in 2016 to deliver the convocation at her alma mater. Ming earned her Master of Science degree in 2003 followed by a PhD in 2006 in Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, in parallel with the computational neuroscience program at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition.

Vivienne L’Ecuyer Ming (born October 19, 1971) is an American theoretical neuroscientist and artificial intelligence expert. She was named as one of the BBC 100 Women in 2017, and as one of the Financial Times' "LGBT leaders and allies today".