Events | WiDS Stanford Conference 2015
WiDS Stanford Conference 2015
Summary
The inaugural Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference was held at Stanford University with 400+ attendees online and 6,000 + on the livestream.
Event Program
November 2, 2015
9:00AM
Opening Video: Women are changing the world of Data Science
12:05-1:20 pm
Lunch and Table Discussions
3:15-3:55 pm
Career Panel
Jennifer Chayes
Aleksandra Korolova
Shubha Nabar
Bin Yu
Kara Swisher
*All times are UTC -8
Speakers
Provost of Stanford University
VP, Data Science & Engineering, Search & Assistant, Google
Senior VP at Walmart eCommerce
Associate Provost and Dean, University of California, Berkeley
Chairman and CEO, NovaSignal
Professor, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead, Google
Biomedical Semantics Lead, Manager, ZS
Equity Partner, Data Collective
Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Chancellor's Distinguished Professor, Class of 1936 Second Chair, Statistics, EECS, CCB, UC Berkeley
Engineering Fellow, Google
Director, Microsoft Research
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton
Associate Professor at Stanford University
Executive Director, Knight-Hennessy Scholars, Stanford University
Executive Producer of the annual Code Conference
Videos
Big Graph Data Science | Lise Getoor | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Software Design and Engineering
Career Panel | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Values
Carrie Grimes, Google | Stanford Women In Data Science (WiDS) Conference 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
Closing Remarks | Margot Gerritsen | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Data Science as a Career , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
Cyber Security Research: A Data Scientist’s Perspective | Celeste Matarazzo | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
Driven Marketplace Design: Experiments, Machine Learning, and Econometrics | Susan Athey | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
Enabling Breakthrough Insights | Diane Bryant | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Wrangling , Hardware , Software Design and Engineering
Entrepreneur Panel | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling
Evolution of Shopping, Powered by Data Science | Kelly Thompson | WiDS 2015
Fei-Fei Li | Teaching Computers to See with Big Data | WiDS Stanford 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Hardware
Helena Deus | Interview: Data Science, Healthcare, Genomics | WiDS Stanford 2015
TOPICS:
Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career
Keeping Up with the Web | Carrie Grimes Bostock | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Values
Making Pictures, 1000 Words at a Time | Irene Ros | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Data Generation/Collection
Netflix: A confluence of metrics, algorithms, and experimentation | Caitlin Smallwood | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
Network Science: From the Online World to Cancer Genomics | Jennifer Chayes | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
Susan Athey | Driven Marketplace Design: Experiments, Machine Learning, Econometrics | Stanford 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
Teaching Computers to See with Big Data | Fei-Fei Li | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Hardware
The Multi-Facets of a Data Science Project to Answer: How Are Organs Formed | Bin Yu | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Algorithms , Software Design and Engineering
Welcome and Opening Remarks | Margot Gerritsen and Persis Drell | WiDS 2015
TOPICS:
Data Generation/Collection , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)
