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WiDS Stanford Conference 2019

Summary

The WiDS 2019 Conference at Stanford University featured keynotes, technical vision talks, a career panel, lunchtime breakouts, and multiple opportunities to network with other attendees.

Event Program

March 4, 2019

9:00 - 9:15 AM

WiDS ​​Welcome

Margot Gerritsen

Judy ​Logan

Karen Matthys

9:15 - 9:30 AM

Opening Address

Jennifer Widom

10:40 - 11:00 AM

Morning Break

​11:00 - 11:05 AM
12:15 - 1:45 PM

Lunch and Breakout Sessions -​On livestream: WiDS interviews by theCube

1:45 - 2:15 PM

Fireside Chat

Lori Sherer

Yoky Matsuoka

3:15 - 3:30 PM

Afternoon Break

3:30 - 4:10 PM

Career Panel 

Natalie Evans Harris

Marzyeh Ghassemi

Emily Glassberg-Sands

Yinglian Xie

4:50 - 5:00 PM

Closing Remarks

Margot Gerritsen

5:00 - 7:00 PM

Networking Reception

*All times are UTC -8

Speakers

Judy ​Logan

Former Co-Director, WiDS Worldwide

Karen Matthys

Executive Director External Partners, Stanford University, ICME

Margot Gerritsen

Executive Director

Jennifer Widom

Professor, Stanford University

Padmasree Warrior

President and CEO at Fable

Hilary Parker

Chief Technology Officer, Indyx

Marzyeh Ghassemi

Healthy Machine Learning @ MIT EECS/IMES & Vector Institute

Meredith Lee

Chief Technical Advisor to the Associate Provost UC Berkeley Computing, Data Science, & Society

Anima Anandkumar

Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at CalTech and Director of Research in Machine Learning, NVIDIA.,

Timnit Gebru

Founder & Executive Director, The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)

Cynthia Dwork

Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

Yoky Matsuoka

Vice President, Google Health

Lori Sherer

WiDS Worldwide Advisory Committee Chair, Partner, Bain & Company

Alicia Carriquiry

Director, CSAFE

Yinglian Xie

CEO and Co-Founder, DataVisor, Inc.

Laura Kegelmeyer

Scientist / Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Natalie Evans Harris

Senior Advisor for Delivery (Tech and Data), Secretary of Commerce

Emily Glassberg-Sands

Head of Information, Stripe

Emma Brunskill

Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University

Madeleine Udell

Assistant Professor, Cornell

Videos

Alicia Carriquiry | Machine Learning and the Evaluation of Criminal Evidence | Stanford 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Better Reinforcement Learning for Human in the Loop Systems | Emma Brunskill | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Building Trust in the Digital Age | Yinglian Xie | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Wrangling , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Career Panel | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Values

Closing Remarks | Margot Gerritsen | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Values

Differential Privacy and the US Census | Cynthia Dwork | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Emily Glassberg-Sands | Data Science for Unlocking Teaching & Learning at Scale | WiDS Stanford 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Software Design and Engineering , Values

Evolution of Machine Learning for NIF Optics Inspection | Laura Kegelmeyer | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms

Filling in Missing Data with Low Rank Models | Madeleine Udell | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Values

Fireside Chat | Yoky Matsuoka & Lori Sherer | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Values

Improving Health Requires Targeting and Evidence | Marzyeh Ghassemi | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Values

Infusing Structure into Machine Learning Algorithms | Anima Anandkumar | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics) , Software Design and Engineering , Values

Janet George, Western Digital | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Software Design and Engineering , Values

Kavita Sangwan, Intuit | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Values

Kristina Draper, Wells Fargo | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling , Values

Liza Donnelly, The New Yorker | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Data Generation/Collection , Data Wrangling

Machine Learning and the Evaluation of Criminal Evidence | Alicia Carriquiry | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Natalie Evans Harris, BrightHive | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Values

Opening Address | Jennifer Widom | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Data Wrangling

Srujana Kaddevarmuth, Accenture | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Technology Driven Business Opportunities for the Next Decade | Padmasree Warrior | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Science as a Career

Using Data Effectively: Beyond Art and Science | Hilary Parker | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Foundations (Mathematics/Statistics)

Timnit Gebru | Understanding the Limitations of AI | WiDS Stanford 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Software Design and Engineering , Values

Understanding the Limitations of AI: When Algorithms Fail | Timnit Gebru | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Science as a Career , Values

WiDS Opening Video 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms

WiDS Datathon Winners Announced | Meredith Lee | WiDS 2019

TOPICS: Algorithms , Data Generation/Collection , Data Wrangling

Other Media

Youtube Playlist