Episode 14 - Radita Liem
Guest
Radita Liem is a research assistant and PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University. After graduated from her undergraduate study in UkDW Jogja, she worked at one of game companies from Japan and then at one unicorn companies in Indonesia before finally continued her master study in Estonia. Now she’s researching about High Performance Computing (HPC) for her doctorate study.
Description
In this episode, we talked with Radita Liem, a research assistant and PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University. We talked about her experience working at game company and one of unicorn companies in indonesia. When she was fell sick and decided to take a break from working, she eventually found an opportunity to continue her master degree in Estonia and then focus on learning High Performance Computing (HPC) which then become her main research topic on her doctorate study now. We also talked about influential women figures in the technology field.
Links
- Adways
- Traveloka
- STACC
- Bolt
- Point of Sale
- Pascal
- COBOL
- Distributed computing
- Venture Capital
- High Performance Computer
- Blockchain
- Quantum computing
- Fortran
- Grace Hopper
- Hidden Figures
- Diane Greene
- VMware
- Sheryl Sandberg
- Women in HPC
Segments
02:22 - Dita’s introduction
03:57 - Initial story why Dita was interested in technology
09:22 - Dita’s focus during her mater study
19:35 - Talked about High Performing Computing (HPC)
29:10 - Dita’s research focus in HPC
32:36 - Programming language used in HPC
38:50 - Reasons why women are not too confident to have career in tech
42:55 - Dita’s role model in tech
44:57 - Dita’s tips for the listeners