Mária Kieferová, PhD

Maria Kieferova (Marika) is a Sydney Quantum Academy fellow, a Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and a member of Google Quantum AI. She has over ten years of experience working on quantum algorithms, starting from her undergraduate studies at Comenius University in Slovakia. She obtained her PhD from The Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, and Macquarie University. Her thesis was awarded the Person medal and IQC Achievement Award. Throughout her studies, she undertook internships at Microsoft Research and Zapata Computing. At UTS, Marika is exploring the boundary between quantum and classical algorithms for machine learning. She is also affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology and serves on the editorial board of the IOP journal Quantum Science and Technology.

Bujuanes Livermore

Bujuanes Livermore is the Head of Research and Design in Data, Intelligence, and Design in Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) at Microsoft and she leads the Worldwide Community for Design & Experience. CSE is a global engineering organization that works directly with the largest companies and not-for-profits in the world to tackle their most significant technical challenges. Bringing human-centered design to the forefront and creating a more harmonious balance between the technical and the human drives her work. She is keenly interested in the influences and effects of digital and augmented environments, the human experience of service and product design, and challenging traditional business models and service offerings.

Responsible AI Starts with Responsible Design(Talk)

Raymond Reed

Ray is a Customer Success Data Scientist at WhyLabs, the AI Observability company. He has a long held passion for machine learning and loves helping customers save time and money by monitoring their ML systems at scale. Ray was formerly a Senior Success Engineer at Datorama, a Salesforce Company, where he drove success for large enterprise customers with a focus on improving query performance across the company. With his spare time, Ray enjoys hiking, music, and more hiking.

Monitoring CV Systems: A Unique Solution to a Unique Problem(Talk)

Thilaksha Silva, PhD

Thilaksha Silva has obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Statistics from Monash University, Australia. Thilaksha is skilled in data science for electricity distribution, statistics, time series forecasting, predictive modelling and big data analytics. She is adept at advanced data analytics with 10+ years of experience and has mastered in communicating the business value across the business and engaging audience with data science on a deeper level.

Data Science in a Data Driven Energy Organisation(Talk)