#339 Eamonn Maguire: Your Child Has a Data Profile Before They're Born

Can you introduce yourself and give that background? My background is varied, I would say. I started most of my professional type of career was in bioinformatics. It was basically using computational techniques to analyze, the genetic sequences or protein sequences and so on. And that very much got me into the academic mindset of things. And I went and did a master's in bioinformatics and then a PhD in computer science, Largely focused on also quite a bit of bioinformatics, but I also worked in security applications, a lot of stuff in insider threat, for example. Worked in things with digital humanities, also like analyzing poetry for the way things were are spoken and how it's how you can visualize that type of information. So I my my major interest for a lot of my life was working on visualization, data visualization. So the intersection of computer graphics, mathematics, statistics, machine learning later, I would say, and then the computer science aspect of it. And visualization opened up a lot of different avenues, in fact. So I worked in biology. I worked in security. I worked in digital humanities. I I ended up doing my postdoc at CERN. I spent a couple of years there, then I went and worked in finance for three years, taking a lot of what I learned from, I would say, the previous my previous career cycles into finance also. So I did a lot of work applying the techniques typically used in biology or bioinformatics, but doing it using those techniques in financial time series analysis, for example, or looking at different ways of correlating different signals together. And after that, I ended up working at Facebook where I worked a lot in more the there's more machine learning and data science for all external and internal threats. So everyone trying to get into Facebook's network, preventing that happening. Anyone trying to exfiltrate data out of Facebook from within Facebook, also stopping that as well. So more detection engineering. And then after that, I came to Proton. So I've been at Proton Life for six years. Okay. I gotta ask the the digital humanities is fascinating. What you're creating visualizations of language patterns and poetry. Is that is that essentially what you're doing? One project, in fact, was looking at how the tongue moves or how there's basically different ways. There's a representation about how you create sounds, like, from the back of the throat, from the front, from the tongue, and so on. And, basically, we had a grid representing that, and then we're able to visualize the changes of this over time. So you could see how different poems were supposed to be read in a more smooth way versus those which are more harsh tongues where you have big dynamic changes in positions, which manifested themselves then as being very large changes in in tonality, for example. So it was cool. I I like everything, which is interesting, and we …