WiML Social @ ICLR 2024
Vienna, Austria
May 8, 2024
12:45PM
Date: May 08th, 2024 (Wed.)
Time: 12:45 PM- 2:15 PM
Place: Hall B, Messe Wien Exhibition Congress Center@Vienna, Austria
The topic of the panel will be AI Unplugged: Navigating Everyday Life & Professional Paths. During the panel, we aim to facilitate discussions on various topics, such as mentorship advice and how AI t
echnologies are impacting personal and professional domains.
Program:
12:45 – 12:50 PM Opening Remarks - Tatjana Chavdarova (WiML board)
12:50 – 1:25 PM Networking & Lunch
12:50 – 1:00 PM Icebreaker games
1:00 – 1:25 PM Networking themed roundtables
1:25 – 2:15 PM Panel discussion: “AI Unplugged: Navigating Everyday Life & Professional Paths”
PANELISTS
Bahare Fatemi
Bahare Fatemi is a Research Scientist at Google Research in Montreal, specializing in graph representation learning and natural language processing. She received her Ph.D. From the University of British Columbia. Her work has been featured in top AI conferences and journals including NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, and JMLR. She co-organized the Mining and Learning with Graphs workshop at KDD, Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop, and the Montreal AI Symposium.
Devi Parikh
Devi Parikh, an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing, previously served as Senior Director of Generative AI at Meta until March 2024. Her diverse career includes roles as Director at Meta's FAIR lab, Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech, and Research Assistant Professor at TTIC. She has held visiting positions at esteemed institutions such as Cornell, UT Austin, Microsoft Research, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Facebook AI Research. Her research focuses on generative AI, AI for creativity, multimodal AI, and human-AI collaboration. She boasts numerous awards, including NSF CAREER, Sloan Research Fellowship, and IJCAI Computers and Thought award, among others.
Priya Donti
Priya Donti is an Assistant Professor and the Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Professor at MIT EECS and LIDS. Her research focuses on machine learning for forecasting, optimization, and control in high-renewables power grids. Priya is also the co-founder and Chair of Climate Change AI, a global nonprofit initiative to catalyze impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning. Priya received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. She hold several awards and fellowships including the MIT Technology Review’s 2021 “35 Innovators Under 35” award and the ACM SIGEnergy Doctoral Dissertation Award.
MODERATOR
Aya Abdelsalam Ismail
Aya Abdelsalam Ismail is a research scientist at Prescient Design in the frontier group. Prior to Prescient, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland where she was advised by Soheil Feizi and Héctor Corrada Bravo. During her Ph.D. her research focused on the interpretability of neural models for sequential data.
WiML SOCIAL ORGANIZERS
Yutong Zhou is a Postdoc Researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany. Her research interests focus on computer vision and deep learning, particularly in Generative Models, Multi-modal Vision and Language. She is concentrating on Artificial Intelligence × Biodiversity × Smart agriculture, surrounding the goals of ‘Global Sustainability for Better AI’ and ‘AI for Best Global Sustainability’.
Lisa Weijler is a PreDoc researcher at the Computer Vision Lab (CVL), TU Wien, Austria. Her research interests are computer vision and machine learning for 3D and unstructured data, especially point clouds. Additionally, she is passionate about combining her research with medical, social or political science in interdisciplinary projects. She has applied her research for cancer cell detection in pediatric leukemia patients as well as for methodological advancements like SE(3) equivariant convolutions or OOD 3D scene understanding. Her main research focus currently is open vocabulary 3D scene understanding.
WiML BOARD ORGANIZERS
Hewitt Tusiime – WiML ICLR liaison
Erin Grant – D&I chair
Tatjana Chavdarova – VP Events WiML
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