In our conversation with Dr. Uchenna Chukwu (or “Dr. U”) she shares her journey from process engineer in Food Science to the world of machine learning in the pharmaceutical industry to finding the opportunities that lead her into working with big data, patents, and tech entrepreneurship. (She’s a Patent Agent! And we find out what that means!) We talk Christmas present moments, and when things line up and you do a happy dance (that you are glad that maybe co-workers don’t see), and why diversity is vitally important to solving problems, especially when we use machine learning and AI to tackle those problems.