Susan Athey | Bringing an Economist’s Perspective to Data Science
With a prolific career spanning academia and industry, Susan’s research focuses on the economics of digitization, marketplace design, and the intersection of econometrics and machine learning. She rec...
16 Jan 202051min
Montse Medina | Lessons Learned Building a Data Science Startup
Montse Medina was pursuing her PhD at Stanford’s Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) when she realized she had a great idea for a company. She left her graduate program to ...
12 Des 201936min
Bonus Episode: Margot Gerritsen | How to Get More Women Into Data Science
It was in 2015 when Margot Gerritsen was asked to speak at a data conference with not a single other woman on the program that she knew that something had to be done to get women into the field.As she...
14 Nov 201928min
Timnit Gebru | Advocating for Diversity, Inclusion and Ethics in AI
Timnit recently completed her postdoc in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsoft Research, New York. Prior to that, she was a PhD student at the Stanford Artif...
23 Okt 201936min
Christiane Kamdem + Lama Moussawi | WiDS Ambassadors Bring Education and Role Models to their Communities
Our WiDS Ambassadors in Paris and Beirut discuss the impact of the growing WiDS presence and communities in their countries. Christiane Kamdem, a native of Cameroon and WiDS Ambassador in Paris, is a ...
3 Okt 201930min
Sherrie Wang | Applying Machine Learning to Solve Global Food Security Challenges
Sherrie brings an interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial perspective to her research that she has developed through her work in the fields of computational finance, biomedical engineering, and computer...
12 Sep 201931min
Marzyeh Ghassemi | Applying Machine Learning to Understand and Improve Health
Ghassemi explains how she is tackling two issues: eradicating bias in healthcare data and models, and understanding what it means to be healthy across different populations during her conversation wit...
28 Aug 201936min
Shir Meir Lador | Using Data Science to Keep Financial Data Secure
In addition to her job at Intuit, Lador is a WiDS ambassador in Israel, has her own podcast about data science, and is a co-founder of PyData Tel Aviv meetups. Lador’s team at Intuit focuses on machin...
15 Aug 201935min
