Flow AMA with Sci-Hub Founder - Alexandra Elbakyan
We are holding up in excitement for our next Flow AMA, and this time we have Alexandra Elbakyan is the creator of the Sci-Hub. Sci-Hub is the website that provides free access to millions of research papers and books.
Sci-Hub was founded by Alexandra Elbakyan in response to the high cost of research papers behind paywalls. As of July 2020, Sci-Hub self-reported that the cumulative number of downloads exceeded one billion, and the average number of downloads per day is 300-600 thousand.
Alexandra is globally respected amongst coders, Phds, Professors, students, activists, and educators. She has been described as a "Science's Pirate Queen". Nature has listed her in the 'Top ten people that mattered in science'.
We are in awe to have her in our next Flow AMA to have direct 1-on-1 interaction with this 'Powerhouse of Inspiration'. Buckle up to interact and ask her questions on building the 'Website of the century', to what she is up to now, and a wide range of interests from Brain-Machine Interfaces, Consciousness, and AI.