I finally graduated! Stoked to give the valedictory speech at my graduation. I received a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics) and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Melbourne. The first pic is of me and my mum, and the second is of a lectern towering before me!
Forbes named me a world's top 50 woman in tech & 30 Under 30. I founded Robogals and Aipoly and was Young Australian of the Year 2012. Currently working on robotics company Aubot. I'm the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and I give speeches around the world.
I tweet @maritacheng and I'm on Facebook.
I meet people all the time. In the past it was at entrepreneurship networking events when I was starting up Nudge. Then, it was at engineering...
People don't think about you. They're too busy worrying about how you think about them.
SBS Viceland’s The Feed did a story with us where Anthony used his brain to control Teleport to see the top storey of his house for the first time,...
I visited Fetch Robotics as part of a field trip for a Stanford course I took. Fetch Robotics sold to Zebra Technologies for $290 million in 2021....
They’re cheap. They don’t always look very pretty. You can even get some with a yellow hue! (And even if you don’t, but you leave them for too long,...
The world is so noisy! Every day there's the breaking news through your multiple most trusted news sources; there's the buzz of your twitter and...
When I was growing up, I read voraciously - for hours and hours a day. When I was in year 7, my mum even went to my parent-teacher interview and...
“I go to Imperial College”, “I’m applying to MIT”, “I play bowls for my county”, or “I’m a pro-series gamer” means nothing to the person who doesn’t know...
I was invited to participate in a book, "200 Women: Who Will Change The Way You See The World" earlier this year. The result is this beautiful...
Being concerned with what people think about you makes you unable to contribute your best work to the world.
