Schedule

Sehedule of local and Live Streaming events.

WiDS Chico State, March 4, 2019
Sylvesters Cafe 100
Chico State Campus
400 West First Street, Chico, CA 95929

* Denotes a local event only.

8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Networking
9:00 - 9:15 WiDS Welcome WiDS Co-Directors: Margot Gerritsen, Karen Matthys, and Judy Logan, Stanford University
9:15 - 9:30 Opening Address Jennifer Widom, Dean, Stanford School of Engineering
9:30 - 10:00 Keynote Address Padmasree Warrior, Former CEO, CDO and Board Member, NIO
10:00 - 10:20 “Using Data Effectively: Beyond Art and Science” Hilary Parker, Data Scientist, Stitchfix
10:20 - 10:40 “Improving Health Requires Targeting and Evidence” Marzyeh Ghassemi, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
10:40 - 11:05 Morning Break
11:05 - 11:25 “Infusing Structure into Machine Learning Algorithms” Anima Anandkumar, Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at CalTech and Director of Research in Machine Learning, NVIDIA
11:25 - 11:45 “Understanding the Limitations of AI: When Algorithms Fail” Timnit Gebru, Research Scientist on the Ethical AI Team,Google
11:45 - 12:15 Keynote Address Cynthia Dwork, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
12:15 - 1:45 Lunchtime Career Panel*
1:45 - 2:15 Fireside Chat Yoky Matsuoka, Vice President, Google Health in conversation with Lori Sherer, Partner, Bain & Company
2:15 - 2:35 “Machine Learning and the Evaluation of Criminal Evidence” Alicia Carriquiry Distinguished Professor and President’s Chair in Statistics | Director of CSAFE, Iowa State University
2:35 - 2:55 “Building Trust in the Digital Age” Yinglian Xie, CEO and Co-Founder, DataVisor
2:55 - 3:15 “Evolution of Machine Learning for NIF Optics Inspection” Laura Kegelmeyer, Scientist / Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
3:15 - 3:30 Afternoon Break
3:30 - 4:10 Local WiDS Symposium Submit your abstract to share your journy, path, research, current job highlights or recruitment opportunities.
4:10 - 4:30 “Better Reinforcement Learning for Human in the Loop Systems” Emma Brunskill, Assistant Professor, Computer Science,Stanford University
4:30 - 4:50 “Filling in Missing Data with Low Rank Models” Madeleine Udell, Assistant Professor of Operations Research & Information Engineering, & Richard and Sybil Smith Sesquicentennial Fellow, Cornell University
4:50 - 5:00 Closing Remarks Margot Gerritsen, Senior Associate Dean, Stanford University