FREE –
ODSC KEYNOTE PASS
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jeannette M. Wing, PhD
Jeannette M. Wing is the Executive Vice President for Research at Columbia University and Professor of Computer Science. In her EVPR role, she has overall responsibility for the University’s research enterprise at all New York locations and internationally. The New York locations include the Morningside and Manhattanville campuses, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and Nevis Laboratories. She joined Columbia in 2017 as the inaugural Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute.
Prior to Columbia, Dr. Wing was Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research, served on the faculty and as department head in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, and served as Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Wing’s research contributions have been in the areas of trustworthy AI, security and privacy, specification and verification, concurrent and distributed systems, programming languages, and software engineering. Her 2006 seminal essay, titled “Computational Thinking,’’ is credited with helping to establish the centrality of computer science to problem-solving in fields where previously it had not been embraced, and thereby influencing K-12 and university curricula worldwide.
She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. She received distinguished service awards from the ACM and the Computing Research Association and an honorary doctorate degree from Linköping University, Sweden. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in computer science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Suchi Saria, PhD
An AI expert and health AI pioneer, Suchi Saria’s research has led to myriad new inventions to improve patient care. Her work first demonstrated the use of machine learning to make early detection possible in sepsis, a life-threatening condition (Science Trans. Med. 2015). In Parkinson’s, her work showed a first demonstration of using readily-available sensors to easily track and measure symptom severity at home, to optimize treatment management (JAMA Neurology 2018). On the technical front, her work at the intersection of machine learning and causal inference has led to new ideas for building and evaluating reliable ML (ACM FAT 2019). Suchi currently holds a John C. Malone endowed chair at Johns Hopkins University, with appointments across engineering, public health, and medicine. She is also the Founder of Bayesian Health, aiming to revolutionize the delivery of healthcare by empowering providers and health systems with real-time access to essential clinical inferences. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including being named a Sloan Research Fellow, a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine, MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Azalia Mirhoseini, PhD
Azalia Mirhoseini is a Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain. She is the co-founder/tech-lead of the Machine Learning for Systems Team in Google Brain where they focus on deep reinforcement learning based approaches to solve problems in computer systems and metalearning. She has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University. She has received a number of awards, including the MIT Technology Review 35 under 35 award, the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award at Rice and a Gold Medal in the National Math Olympiad in Iran. Her work has been covered in various media outlets including MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, and Wired.
Generalized Deep Reinforcement Learning for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems(Keynote)
Ion Stoica, PhD
Ion Stoica is a Professor in the EECS Department at University of California at Berkeley. He does research on cloud computing and networked computer systems. Past work includes Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, Tachyon, Chord DHT, and Dynamic Packet State (DPS). He is an ACM Fellow and has received numerous awards, including the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award (2015), the SIGCOMM Test of Time Award (2011), and the ACM doctoral dissertation award (2001). In 2013, he co-founded Databricks a startup to commercialize technologies for Big Data processing, and in 2006 he co-founded and Conviva, a startup to commercialize technologies for large scale video distribution.
Making ML Scaling Easy(Keynote)
Raluca Ada Popa, PhD
Raluca Ada Popa is an assistant professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. She is interested in security, systems, and applied cryptography. Raluca developed practical systems that protect data confidentiality by computing over encrypted data, as well as designed new encryption schemes that underlie these systems. Some of her systems have been adopted into or inspired systems such as SEEED of SAP AG, Microsoft SQL Server’s Always Encrypted Service, and others. Raluca received her PhD in computer science as well as her two BS degrees, in computer science and in mathematics, from MIT. She is the recipient of an Intel Early Career Faculty Honor award, George M. Sprowls Award for best MIT CS doctoral thesis, a Google PhD Fellowship, a Johnson award for best CS Masters of Engineering thesis from MIT, and a CRA Outstanding undergraduate award from the ACM.
Zoubin Ghahramani, PhD
Zoubin Ghahramani is Chief Scientist of Uber and a world leader in the field of machine learning, significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in algorithms that can learn from data. He is known in particular for fundamental contributions to probabilistic modeling and Bayesian approaches to machine learning systems and AI. Zoubin also maintains his roles as Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He was one of the founding directors of the Alan Turing Institute (the UK’s national institute for Data Science and AI), and is a Fellow of St John’s College Cambridge and of the Royal Society.
Marinela Profi
As a Marketing Manager for data science and open-source, Marinela uses her cross-domain expertise in statistics, business and marketing, to position SAS as a leader in the Data Science and Machine Learning Platform market. She focuses on helping customers apply advanced analytics, machine learning, natural language processing and forecasting to solve their most complex problems. Over the past 5 years, Profi honed her skills mining data, developing models and technical/business solutions, including deploying AI at scale. Her experience spans banking, manufacturing, retails and energy. She is a keynote speaker and presenter at different global conferences, where she shares trend and priorities of the data science industry. She is a published author, contributor to several eBooks, and blog writer on major industry and data science blogs. She has a bachelor’s in economics, an MBA and a master’s in statistics. She is passionate about getting more younger passionate to code and pursue careers in STEM.
Developing, Deploying and Managing Models at Scale with SAS® Viya®(Talk)
John Montgomery
John leads Program Management for Microsoft Azure AI and is responsible for designing products and services that data scientists and ML experts around the world love and use. He leads a team of program managers, researchers, and designers responsible for products and services including Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services, ML.NET, and ONNX Runtime. Prior to this role, John has led the Program Management team for Microsoft’s Developer Division, including Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Azure Notebooks. He has also held positions as director of marketing for Visual Studio, as well as a program manager for Microsoft’s participation in several standards organizations, including ISO, IETF, and ECMA.
Prior to joining Microsoft in 1998, John worked as a writer and editor for several computer and technology publications, including BYTE Magazine, PC/Computing, and Corporate Computing, as well as being the Chief Information Officer for Imagine Publishing.
Fostering AI Innovations Through Open Source Projects(Keynote)
More keynotes to be announced soon
Upgrade Your Pass and Upskill Even More
More Reasons To Upgrade Your Pass?
Check our why attend guide
Trainings & Workshops
50+ training sessions over 4 days, ODSC Europe brings the breadth and depth of data science
Networking
Connect with 5,000 fellow data scientists, innovators, practitioners and influencers
Launch Your
Data Science Career
Gain in-demand skills to launch or enhance your data science career
Get Certified
Get a certification of completion upon finishing 3 or 4 days of instruction
I can’t possibly explain how much I enjoyed the ODSC East Virtual conference. Many of the talks and workshops exceeded my expectations. Thank you very much and well done!
Batool A. |Research Fellow | Liverpool, UK
ODSC East 2020 is the 3rd ODSC event that I have attended. The staff and speakers did a tremendous job approaching the challenge of moving the conference online. The speakers were engaging, the staff attentive, and my team had a wonderful experience this week. Well done! I look forward to attending my next event.
Leslie Walcott | Data Scientist | Chicago
It’s just wonderful to attend this virtual event with so many people over here. Wonderful Initiative by ODSC. Brilliant Content.
Harshit P. | Software Engineering | Accenture
I just want to say a huge thanks to the organizers! I was skeptical about the remote format at first. However, it is an introvert’s dream! It is so much easier to ask questions in chat/slack than it is to raise my hand in a crowded lecture hall
Andras Z.| Lead Data Scientist | Brown University.
ODSC is the best community data science events on the planet. There are other events that cover special topics, or industries, etc., but ODSC is comprehensive and totally community-focused: it’s the conference to engage, to build, to develop, and to learn from the whole data science community.
Kirk Borne | Principal Data Scientist and Executive Advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton