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DEI Distinguished Lecture Series
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February 18, 2025
Taurean Dyer
Sr. Product Manager
NVIDIA
Taurean Dyer holds a graduate degree in Mechanical engineering towards energy technology and robotics from Stony Brook University. He is a Sr. Product Manager at NVIDIA. Beyond a passion for fixing things and helping people with innovative technologies, he takes his system level decomposition ability to combine business and people’s needs and capabilities beneficially together as amazingly functional teams. He also mentors historically disenfranchised community me
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Aicha Evans
Senegalese-American business executive
Aichatou Sar Evans (born 1969),[1] known professionally as Aicha Evans, is an American chief executive officer of Amazon's self-driving car subsidiary Zoox. In June 2020, Evans led the acquisition of her company by Amazon for US$1.3 billion.
Early life and education
[edit]Evans was born in Senegal and spent her childhood in Paris.[2][3] After immigrating to the United States, she studied at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.,[2] where she received a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering in 1996.[4]
Career
[edit]Evans has held engineering management positions at companies including Rockwell Semiconductor, Conexant, and Skyworks Solutions.[4]
Evans joined Intel in 2006,[3] and spent 12 years with the firm, specializing in leading wireless engineering projects utilizing technologies like Bluetooth, Wireless LAN, XMM register, and 5G.[5] In 2013, Evans assumed leadership of a communications and devices division[3] with more than 7,000 employees. In 2017, Evans was promoted to Chief Strategy Officer.[2] In a Federal Trade Commission case against Qualcomm, Evans served as a witness alleging unfa