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 |