Welcome!
Friday, February 5, 1:30 - 3:00 PM PT
This year’s event will be virtual, but the aim is still the same: to give women students in AI the opportunity to meet some of the great women that lead our field. This is a venue for discussing issues relevant to pursuing a successful career in AI, connecting with peers, and establishing mentor/mentee relationships that we hope will extend beyond this single event. No submissions are required, but this event is open to registered participants only.
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Agenda:
Meet your mentors:
Claire Monteleoni
Associate Professor, and the Associate Chair for Inclusive Excellence, in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder
machine learning for the study of climate change helped launch the interdisciplinary field of Climate Informatics.
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Yolanda Gil
Senior Director for Major Strategic AI and Data Science Initiatives USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
intelligent interfaces for knowledge capture, knowledge-based planning and problem solving, information analysis and assessment of trust, semantic annotation, software choreography, community-wide development of knowledge bases.
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Farzaneh Tabataba
Software Engineer & Data Scientist, Bloomberg L.P.
Data Science, Machine learning, Knowledge graph
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Shiwali Mohan
Senior Member of Research Staff at the Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC)
human-AI collaborative systems, hybrid AI systems, cognitive modeling, AI architectures
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Heng Ji
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
natural language processing
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Sara Magliacane
Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam and Research Scientist at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Causality, causal inference, transfer learning
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Kiri Wagstaff
Principal Researcher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Associate Research Professor, Oregon State University
machine learning, active learning, unsupervised learning and discovery, machine learning applications to natural science domains, competency-aware machine learning
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Rezarta Islamaj
Staff Scientist, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
data science, machine learning, text mining, biomedical named entity recognition, relationship extraction, information extraction, biocuration, corpus annotation
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Danai Koutra
Morris Wellman Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
data science, large-scale graph mining, graph neural networks, network representation learning, network summarization, network alignment, network neuroscience
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Judy Goldsmith
Professor of Computer Science, University of Kentucky
Computational Social Choice, Opinions in Social Networks, CS Ethics Pedagogy, Computational Complexity
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Francesca Rossi
IBM AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM Research, US
preferences, constraints, multi-agent systems, fairness, computational social choice, neuro-symbolic AI
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Laura Hiatt
Senior Research Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory
Human-robot interaction; cognitive science; planning, scheduling and execution
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Maria Gini
College of Science & Engineering Distinguished Professor
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Intelligent Agents.
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Marie desJardins
Dean of the College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences, Simmons University
artificial intelligence, machine learning, CS education
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Natasha Noy
Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google Research
Semantic Web, structured data, search, open data
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Nesreen Ahmed
Senior Researcher & Tech Lead, Intel Labs
Theory and algorithms, Statistical Relational learning, Graph neural networks, Large-scale Machine Learning Algorithms
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Ning Yu
Senior Research Scientist, AI/ML Accelerator, Leidos INC.
Natural language processing applications, Information retrieval, Recommendation system, Domain adaptation
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Jennifer Neville
Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, relational learning, graph learning, social network analysis, link analysis
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Rina Dechter
Distinguished Professor, UC Irvine
Graphicl models, Constraint processing, heuristic search, inference.
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Furong Huang
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
High-dimensional statistics, Deep Learning Theory, Reinforcement Learning, Spectral Methods, Tensor Decompositions, Latent Variable Models
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Sheila McIlraith
Professor Department of Computer Science, CIFAR Canada AI Chair and Faculty Member (Vector Institute), Research Lead Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society
KR, sequential decision making, reinforcement learning, automated planning, AI Safety, human-compatible AI, neuro-symbolic AI
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Fatiha Sadat
Professor, University of Quebec in Montreal
Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, Less-resourced languages, Indigenous languages.
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Jennifer Golbeck
Professor, University of Maryland
social media, personalization, user modeling, privacy
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Becky Thomas
Chief Operating Officer, i2k Connect
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud, OpenSource
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