Nashlie Sephus

Nashlie H. Sephus is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur specialized in machine learning and algorithmic bias identification. She is a technology evangelist at Amazon Web Services. Sephus is co-founder and chief executive officer of Bean Path, a nonprofit startup company developing Jackson Tech District, a planned community and business incubator in Jackson, Mississippi.

Life Sephus was born in Jackson, Mississippi, where she was raised in an all-female household. She attended a two-week sleepaway engineering camp for girls that introduced her to computer engineering. Sephus graduated from Murrah High School in 2003. In 2007, she completed a B.S. in computer engineering at Mississippi State University. She earned a master's degree and Ph.D. (2014) in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering. Her dissertation was titled A framework for exploiting modulation spectral features in music data mining and other applications. Sephus' doctoral advisors were and .

In 2013, Sephus, then a doctoral student, began working part-time for the all black women startup

In 2018, Sephus began plans to create a technology community and business incubator in Jackson, Mississippi as part of her nonprofit startup company Bean Path. She is the company's cofounder and CEO. On September 11, 2020, Sephus purchased 12 acres near Jackson State University to create the Jackson Tech District.