Posted by Sharbani Roy – Senior Director, Product Administration, Google
We’re again with the third annual Ladies in Machine Studying Symposium on December 7, 2023!
Be a part of us nearly from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm PT for an immersive and insightful set of deep dives for each stage of Machine Studying expertise.
The Ladies in ML Symposium is an inclusive occasion for anybody passionate in regards to the transformative fields of Machine Studying (ML) and Synthetic Intelligence (AI). Meet this yr’s ladies in ML as they uncover sensible functions throughout a number of industries and talk about the newest developments in frameworks, generative AI, and extra.
Joana Carrasqueira, presenter for “Enabling Anybody to Construct with Google AI”
Joana is a Developer Relations Lead for AI/ML at Google and her mission is to empower people and organizations to harness the facility of AI to handle real-world challenges.
She is a enterprise chief with a observe file of bringing strategic imaginative and prescient and world cross-functional packages to life. She’s additionally the creator of Google’s Ladies in ML program and flagship symposium, a pioneering initiative that has geared up hundreds of builders with information and expertise in AI/ML.
Previous to Google, she labored on the Silicon Valley Innovation Middle on innovation consulting for Forbes top500, startups and Enterprise Capital companies. Served as Schooling Supervisor on the Worldwide Pharmaceutical Federation, working intently with WHO, UNESCO, the United Nations and began her profession on the Portuguese Pharmaceutical Society.
Joana holds an MBA from IE Enterprise Faculty, a Grasp in Pharmaceutical Sciences and a Management Certificates from U.C. Berkeley in California.
Sharbani Roy, presenter for “What’s New in Machine Studying?”
Sharbani is Sr. Director in Google’s Core Machine Studying group.
Earlier than becoming a member of Google, Sharbani led engineering and product groups in Amazon Alexa, targeted on media streaming, real-time communication, and utilized ML (e.g., NLU, CV, and AR) for 1P/3P builders and finish shoppers.
Sharbani holds levels in physics and arithmetic from the College of Chicago and an MBA from Stanford College, and lives in Seattle along with her husband and three youngsters.
Eve Phillips, presenter for “Way forward for Frameworks: Navigate the OSS Panorama”
Eve is a Director of Product Administration at Google.
At present, Eve leads the ML Frameworks product workforce, which incorporates duty for TensorFlow, JAX and Keras. Beforehand, she led product groups inside Google for Clinicians and ChromeOS. Previous to Google, she served as CEO of Empower Interactive, delivering tech-enabled behavioral well being.
Earlier, she held roles in main expertise firms and buyers together with Trilogy, Microsoft, and Greylock.
Eve earned a BS and M.Eng in EECS from MIT and an MBA from Stanford.
Meenu Gaba, presenter for “Information-Centric AI: A New Paradigm”
Meenu leads the Machine Studying infrastructure workforce at Google, with a mission to energy AI innovation with world-class ML infrastructure and providers.
She is a expertise chief with years of expertise launching new merchandise and rising small groups into mature scalable, multi-tiered organizations which can be poised to ship prime quality merchandise. Meenu enjoys fast-paced, dynamic, extremely iterative/modern environments and has a number of expertise in balancing these disciplines whereas fostering a people-first tradition and forming strong grounds for cross-functional relationships.
Meenu holds a Grasp’s diploma in Laptop Science. In her free time, she enjoys mountaineering, fixing crosswords, and watching films.
Kelly Shaefer, presenter for “Maximize Your Information Exploration”
Kelly leads product groups at Google Labs, constructing each solely new AI merchandise and AI-enabled options into Google’s largest present merchandise.
Prior to now, she led the Progress workforce for Google Workspace, together with Gmail, Drive, Docs, and plenty of extra.
Outdoors of Google, she led the Enterprise product workforce at Stripe and was the P&L proprietor for Stripe’s multi-billion greenback Funds space.
Kelly has an undergraduate diploma from Wharton at UPenn, and an MBA from Harvard Enterprise Faculty.
Divyashree Sreepathihalli, presenter for “Keras: Shortcut to AI Mastery”
Divya is a proficient machine studying software program engineer who’s presently part of the Keras workforce at Google.
On this position, she makes a speciality of growing Keras core modeling APIs and KerasCV to enhance the performance of the software program.
Previous to becoming a member of Google, Divya labored as a Deep Studying Scientist for Zazu Sensor, a startup group in Intel’s Rising Progress Incubation (EGI) group. Her work there targeted on pc imaginative and prescient and deep studying algorithm growth for object detection and monitoring, leading to important developments for the startup.
Divya accomplished her Masters in Laptop Engineering from Texas A&M College the place she targeted on Synthetic intelligence in 2017.
Na Li, presenter for “Prototype ML with Visible Blocks”
Na Li is a software program engineer supervisor from Google CoreML.
She leads a workforce to construct developer instruments to assist ML growth journey, from prototyping to mannequin visualization and benchmarking.
Previous to Google, she was a analysis scientist at Harvard, working in HCI area.
All through her profession, Na strives to make ML accessible for everybody.
Zoe Wang, presenter for “Deploying ML Fashions to Cellular Gadgets”
Zoe is a technical program supervisor at Google.
Her profession has been targeted on Machine Studying (ML) productionization.
At present she works along with her workforce bringing ML fashions to cell gadgets that energy a few of AI options for Pixel and different edge gadgets.
Previous to Google, Zoe labored at Meta on ML Platforms for end-to-end ML lifecycles.
Yvonne Li, presenter for “New GenAI Merchandise and Options on Google Cloud”
Yvonne Li is a software program engineer on the Duet Platform workforce at Google, the place she focuses on bettering the standard of generative AI fashions.
As a machine studying engineer and developer advocate at IBM, she designed and developed language fashions and curated open supply datasets.
She has over 3 years of expertise within the large tech business, and is obsessed with utilizing machine studying to unravel real-world issues.
Yvonne is the creator of two Coursera programs: Information Evaluation with R, and, Information Visualization with R.
Nithya Natesan, presenter for “AI-powered Infrastructure: Cloud TPUs”
Nithya Natesan is a Group Product Supervisor within the Cloud ML Accelerators workforce focussing on GPU / TPU choices for Google Cloud.
Previous to Google, she was head of product administration at NVIDIA, launching a number of merchandise like DGX Cloud, Base Command Platform.
She has ~14 years of expertise in hyper convergence Information Middle software program merchandise, with latest concentrate on ML / AI Infra and Platform merchandise. She is obsessed with constructing rock strong PM groups, and delivery prime quality usable ML / AI merchandise.
Nithya has additionally gained business accolades specifically WomenImpactTech 2023.
Andrada Vulpe, presenter for “Group Issues: 8 Causes Why You Ought to Be Concerned with Kaggle”
Andrada is a Information Scientist at Endava, a Notebooks Grandmaster on Kaggle, a Dev Knowledgeable at Weights and Biases and a proud Z by HP Information Science World Ambassador.
She is extremely obsessed with Python, R, Machine and Deep Studying, highly effective visualizations and the whole lot in between.
Andrada completed her MSc in Information Science and Analytics within the UK and gained 2 Kaggle Analytics competitions.
Jeehae Lee, presenter for “From Recovering Professional Golfer to AI Entrepreneur”
Jeehae Lee is a golf business government who has labored to create and construct transformational sports activities expertise companies.
Because the Co-Founder & CEO of Sportsbox AI, Jeehae is presently growing merchandise utilizing AI-enabled 3D movement evaluation expertise that can assist individuals of varied sports activities and health actions study and enhance their expertise.
Earlier than founding Sportsbox, she spent 5 years between 2015 and 2020 at Topgolf Leisure Group, main technique and new enterprise growth for numerous divisions together with Toptracer. Between 2012 and 2013, she was at world sports activities and leisure advertising and marketing company, IMG, representing skilled golfer icon Michelle Wie West. Previous to her profession in sports activities enterprise, she performed skilled golf on the highest stage within the sport, competing on the LPGA tour for 3 years between 2009 and 2011.
Jeehae is a proud graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, and has a BA in Economics from Yale and an MBA from The Wharton Faculty at College of Pennsylvania.
Jingwan (Cynthia) Lu, panelist for “The Affect of Generative AI in Completely different Industries”
Cynthia is a senior director from Adobe main an utilized analysis group specializing in growing the Adobe Firefly household of GenAI fashions constructed from the bottom up.
Her workforce began coaching Adobe’s first large-scale foundational mannequin and helped rally collectively the remainder of the corporate to roll out a brand new web-based product referred to as Firefly that includes the picture era mannequin as step one in early 2023.
The identical expertise and its extension energy Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill and Generative Develop options giving customers clever picture inpainting and outpainting expertise. Time acknowledges Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill and Generative Develop as finest innovations of 2023 within the AI class.
Earlier than Firefly, Jingwan was a pc imaginative and prescient analysis scientist and workforce lead who pioneered and led a big group effort to discover early generative fashions akin to GANs inside Adobe.
Wei Xiao, panelist for “The Affect of Generative AI in Completely different Industries”
Wei is the Director of Developer Relations at NVIDIA for the Center East, Africa, and rising areas. Her main focus is to drive AI and accelerated computing integration throughout the ecosystem.
Earlier than assuming her present position, Wei Xiao headed Ecosystem Engineering and Evangelism groups at each ARM and Samsung Semiconductor.
Along with her skilled endeavors, Wei dedicates her free time to instructing AI programs on the Graduate Faculty of Laptop Science at Santa Clara College.
Priya Mathur, panelist for “The Affect of Generative AI in Completely different Industries”
Priya is a Workers Information Science Supervisor at Google and she or he is the founding father of Sparkle – GenAI Information Analyst.
At Google, she leads Information Science for House Platform Monetization and GenAI efforts for DSPA.
Beforehand at Groupon, she led Information Science for App Push Notifications and TV Adverts.
Katherine Chou, panelist for “The Affect of Generative AI in Completely different Industries”
Katherine is the Senior Director of Analysis and Improvements at Google with a particular concentrate on nurturing scientific and technical breakthroughs that may result in world affect for science, well being, local weather, and development of platform applied sciences for our builders and researchers.
Katherine is concentrated on bettering the provision and accuracy of healthcare utilizing machine studying. She is a serial intrapreneur, significantly eager about eradicating well being inequities and bettering well being and well-being outcomes throughout all populations.
She beforehand developed merchandise inside Google[x] Labs for Life Sciences (now Verily) and co-founded Medical Mind (now “Well being AI”) at Google. She additionally headed up world groups to develop accomplice options and set up developer ecosystems for Cellular Funds, Cellular Search, GeoCommerce, YouTube, and Android.
Outdoors of Google, she is a Board member and Program Chair of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, a Scientific Advisor to the ARCS Basis, a fellow of the Zoological Society of London, and collaborates with different wildlife NGOs and the Cambridge Enterprise Sustainability Programme in making use of the Silicon Valley innovation mindset to new areas.
Katherine holds a double main in Laptop Science and Economics at Stanford College and an M.S. in CS specialised in graphics.
Jaimie Hwang, presenter for “Take Motion, Study Extra, Begin Constructing with Google AI”
Jaimie Hwang is a world product advertising and marketing chief with over a decade of expertise, particularly in AI/ML.
She has constructed and led world product advertising and marketing groups at a lot of AI firms, together with an award-winning pc imaginative and prescient startup and tech big Amazon.
She makes a speciality of government thought management, product storytelling, and built-in GTM technique. She is obsessed with selling AI expertise that’s constructed responsibly and solves real-world issues in a human-centric method.
Jaimie holds a BS in Journalism and Built-in Advertising and marketing and Communications from Northwestern College. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
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