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Adrianna Pinzariu

Founder of SKIIP

Adrianna Pinzariu is a Romanian-American social entrepreneur and AI researcher dedicated to leveraging technology to address the world’s most challenging issues. She is the Founder of SKIIP, an organization using nationally award-winning AI technology developed at one of the nation's top computing schools to combat human trafficking. Adrianna has been developing various AI tools to detect human trafficking cases since she was 14. She has been recognized by the Obama Foundation as an Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholar, honored by the Obamas and Brian Chesky, Co-Founder and CEO of Airbnb.

 

Her work in the technology industry is extensive, having served 14 fellowship and internships from the world’s leading organizations such as D.E. Shaw, (2x) NASA L'SPACE, Motorola Solutions, Meta & MLH. She has expanded her advocacy work by leading Google’s Women Techmakers (WTM) as an Ambassador, organizing programs for a community of over 84,000 women in technology.

 

As a 31-time award winner, Adrianna has built products recognized by organizations such as Google, IEEE, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Notably, she is one of the few undergraduates to publish her machine learning research on lung cancer subtype discovery in ACTS, a Cambridge Press Journal.