Yauri Dalencour

About Yauri Dalencour

The intersection of Arts, Culture, Ed and Tech is exciting. I\'m Yauri, wife+mom, professional dancer, vis artist, scholar, educator, anthropologist and UX practitioner and AI/ML researcher. My husband is an AI company VP and while our fields seem distinct, we are both unpacking human behavior. Phil uses AI to detect and prevent threats in K-12 and University settings, I use AI to understand and teach human movement. I fuse arts, culture, ed and tech in the work I do and create.I am passionate about community, equity, STEAM, Applied AI, UX Research and Design, Arts Education, Visual Culture, VR and Neuroaesthetics. When moving from NYC to Silicon Valley when my husband’s NYC Google offices transferred us to Google’s headquarters in the SF Bay Area, my early work in digital archiving and technical writing in e-commerce while a training dance student in conservatory, surfaced. My early work as an NYU graduate student working on Katherine Dunham’s digital archives with the Library of Congress and starting my first business in 2007 consulting schools on arts program development would lead me to where I am today, and what I did in the Bay with StartUps and in tech.when no one was looking for a dual career or a continued dance career fused together in that way! What I know is that others cannot dictate your path, your love, passions or your journey. They can’t define that. They can’t tell you where you are and why. Only you can do that for you. And if you don’t believe in yourself and what you do and have to offer? No one will.

Experience

1. Domain Expert in Dance Movement Analysis for Ai & Machine Learning

   Meta

   Jul 2023 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   As a Professional Dancer, Ethnodanceologist, Research Scientist, Scholar and UX Researcher and Designer, it is my pleasure to join Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc) in Meta AI with the Fundamentals Artificial Intelligence Research Team (FAIR) on an exciting and phenomenal project in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Ego4D is a collaborative project, seeking to advance the fundamental AI research needed for multimodal machine perception for first-person video understanding.With my specialized knowledge and interdisciplinary skill set, experience and expertise, I bring a unique perspective to data training in Computer Vision, Embodied AI and Machine Learning for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality applications offering cultural, social, historical and technical perspectives, ethnographic annotation and narrative for NLP, analysis and guidance on human movement patterns and complex movement activities. I also bring my skill set in education, teaching and instructional design as well as cross-cultural and international studies to this effort. For more on Ego4D, a global, massive-scale Egocentric dataset visit the META AI Research website and explore studies, academic publications and posts to stay up to date on findings and discoveries.

Education

• Adelphi University

  (BFA), Dance/Theatre Technology & Design; (BA), International Studies; African American & Ethnic Studies

  1999 — 2003

• New York University

  Master of Arts (MA), Steinhardt School of Education, Culture & Human Development - Performing Arts Professions

  2004 — 2005

• The Ailey School - Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre

  Professional Division - Independent Studies (International) Program, Dance and Performance

  2001 — 2003

• Goddard College

  (MFA) - Interdisciplinary Arts - Performance Concentration:, Visual Culture, Dance, New Media Design Practices, Speculative + Intercative Design in AR

  2018 — 2020

• Northwestern University

  Specialization in Social Media Marketing, The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications

  2015 — 2016

• Antioch University

  PhD

• Temple University

  Doctor of Philosophy in Dance Studies, Boyer School of Music & Dance - Cultural Studies Track

  2005 — 2010