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Rian is passionate about identifying problems and innovating award-winning solutions to help retailers provide personalized, differentiated experiences. She escapes the startup grind with her husband, newborn son Zane and their 130-pound Rhodesian Ridgeback, Zu. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Laura Chiticariu | IBM Watson\"] Laura Chiticariu is the Chief Architect of Watson Natural Language Understanding (NLU), where she builds NLU systems that are accurate, scalable and transparent. She believes in the notion of \"Transparent Machine Learning\" in NLU: leveraging machine learning techniques, while ensuring that the NLU system remains transparent - easy to comprehend, debug and enhance. Previously, Laura was a Researcher in the Scalable Natural Language Processing (NLP) group in IBM Research - Almaden, where she built and led the transfer of NLP technologies to multiple IBM products, including IBM BigInsights, IBM Streams and Watson Knowledge Studio, and completed multiple customer engagements with Fortune 100 and multi-national organizations. Laura has been teaching NLP in universities within and outside the U.S. and developed two online courses in the process. Laura holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering with a major in Automation and Industrial Informatics from Politehnica University of Bucharest. In her spare time, she enjoys introducing kids to computer programming. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Mary Czerwinski | Microsoft\"] Mary Czerwinski<\/a> <\/b>is a Research Manager of the Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group<\/a>. Mary\u2019s research focuses primarily on emotion tracking, information worker task management, health and wellness for individuals and groups. Her background is in visual attention and multitasking. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Indiana University in Bloomington. Mary was awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award, was inducted into the CHI Academy, and became an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2010. Mary became a Fellow of the ACM in 2016. She also received the Distinguished Alumni award from Indiana University\u2019s Brain and Psychological Sciences department in 2014 and a Distinguished Alumni award from the College of Arts and Sciences from Indiana in February, 2018. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Ayse Naz Erkan | Twitter\"] Ayse Naz Erkan is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter. Originally from Istanbul, Naz moved to the US in 2004 for a PhD in Computer Science at the Courant Institute of NYU. She did research on deep learning applications for off-road autonomous robot navigation in Yann LeCun\u2019s lab and studied semi-supervised learning at the Max Planck Institute For Biological Cybernetics as a visiting research assistant. After graduating, she started working for Julpan, a stealth startup in NYC, as an early engineer. She joined Twitter in 2011 with the acquisition of Julpan, where she is currently managing the Content Understanding and Applied Team Learning team and is the FairML lead at Cortex, Twitter's central machine learning team. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Carolina Galleguillos |\u00a0Google\"] Carolina Galleguillos is a senior machine learning engineer at Google, where she works on search quality. In 2017, she was named on Forbes\u2019 list of 20 Incredible Women Advancing A.I. Research. She has been at large tech companies such as Hewlett-Packard, and Conversant as well as startups such as Set Media and Thumbtack, building computer vision and machine learning production systems, and directing teams of scientists and engineers to deliver machine learning solutions. At Set Media, her team delivered the computer vision technology that was at the core of the company\u2019s video recommendation system. Carolina received an engineering and computer science degree from the University of Chile, and M.S. and PhD degrees in computer science from UC San Diego. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Miki Heller | Astranis\"] Miki Heller is the VP of Operations and Strategy at Astranis, a startup building low-cost telecommunications satellites to bring internet access to the developing world. Prior to joining Astranis, Miki worked at IDEO, Teach For America, the SF Mayor's Office, and the White House. She graduated with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Cal Poly, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an MPP from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Edaena Salinas Jasso | Microsoft\"] Edaena Salinas<\/a> is a Software Engineer at Microsoft. She\u2019s currently working on building applications in the following areas: cloud native, infrastructure, machine learning, data processing. Prior to that, Edaena worked in the Knowledge Technologies and Intelligent Experiences<\/a> at Microsoft Research and other teams at Microsoft. On her free time, Edaena started The Women in Tech Show<\/a>, a weekly podcast featuring technical interviews with prominent women in tech. The podcast serves as a platform where others can learn about technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and find role models. Edaena is an ambassador for TECHNOLOchicas<\/a>. TECHNOLOchicas is a national initiative to raise awareness among young Latinas and their families about opportunities and careers in technology. Other interests include: cats, drawing, cooking and exercising. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Vanessa Milan | Microsoft\"] Vanessa recently joined Microsoft Research to pioneer an AI & Research design studio for the NYC, Boston, and Montreal labs. As a User Experience designer, her work has spanned products, tools, and services\u2014and now AI & research-based projects. At MSR NYC, she\u2019s introduced an incubation-style, \"fail fast\" and human-centered design approach, that\u2019s guided by the principles of inclusion, accessibility, fairness, and ethics. With a Bachelor of Science in Photography from Drexel University and a Master\u2019s in Publishing from Pace University, Vanessa\u2019s career path towards UX design and technology has been a non-traditional one. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Shubha Nabar | Salesforce Einstein\"] Shubha Nabar is a Senior Director of Data Science at Salesforce Einstein where she and her team make machine learning technologies accessible to the hundreds of thousands of businesses that use Salesforce every day. In 2017, she was featured as one of 20 Incredible Women Advancing AI Research by Forbes Magazine. She has over a decade of experience building data products and data science teams at Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Salesforce. Previously, she received her PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Asta Roseway | Microsoft\"] I am a \u201cFusionist<\/a>\u201d working in Human Computer Interaction at Microsoft Research<\/a>. My focus lies primarily around the intersection of Art, Technology, and Science and how this combination could help generate the next generation of emerging solutions for the Environment, Emotional Health, Social Consciousness, and Sustainability. My research often begins with the same question \u201cWhat if?\u201d which often leads to unconventional explorations in human computer interaction which would include projects such as DuoSkin<\/a>, temporary interactive tattoos, and Lightwear<\/a>, wearable light therapy for seasonal affective disorder. I\u2019m also a strong advocate for a diverse and inclusive culture, and I helped to establish Microsoft\u2019s first ever Artist in Residence<\/a> program that enables Artists to work collectively with our Researchers. Some of the art that has come out of this program has been showcased at venues such as Ars Electronica<\/a>, Biofabricate<\/a> in NY, and the Seattle Art Museum. I also co-founded Digigirlz<\/a>, one of Microsoft\u2019s longest running diversity programs that aims to educate and inspire high school girls about the Tech Industry. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Karin Strauss | Microsoft\"] I am a principal researcher at Microsoft (MSR)<\/a>. I am also an affiliate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering<\/a> at University of Washington<\/a>. My research lies at the intersection of computer architecture, systems, and biology. As traditional semiconductor scaling has started to slow down, I investigate alternative approaches to continue the improvement we have been seeing in computer systems over the last few decades. Approaches I have been studying include hardware accelerators for machine learning, emerging memory technologies, and the use of biotechnology to the benefit of the IT industry. I also work on system software for these new architectures. Lately, my focus has been on creating an end-to-end system that stores digital data in DNA<\/a>, for which I was named one of the 2016 \u201c100 Most Creative People in Business\u201d by Fast Company. I have the privilege to work with a team of brilliant researchers and we have been making quite a lot of progress. Check out one of our announcements<\/a>. The DNA data storage project has been chosen as \u201cBest of What\u2019s New\u201d by Popular Science in 2016 and highlighted by influential publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, and Scientific American. I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. During my studies, I\u2019ve collaborated very closely with top-notch researchers at IBM Research,<\/a> where I also worked on the Blue Gene project<\/a>. After graduating, I worked for almost 2 years at AMD Research,<\/a> where I also had amazing colleagues. For a complete list of publications, please click the tab \u201cPublications\u201d above. If you are interested in DNA storage, click here<\/a>. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Riva Tez | Permutation Ventures\"] Riva-Melissa Tez co-founded an early-stage artificial intelligence focused venture fund based in San Francisco (Permutation Ventures). Her written works includes essays on artificial intelligence and financial tools, including a 2016 Microsoft campaign for The Economist. She is currently co-authoring a paper on economic policy and is interested in tools and policy changes to unlock innovation. She was a 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient for Finance. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Lauren Washington | Fundr\"] Lauren is the cofounder of Fundr, a platform that removes bias from the seed investing process by automating due diligence and portfolio creation for startups and investors. In 2017, she co-founded Black Women Talk Tech to help black women create billion dollar tech companies. Through its conferences, workshops and promotion of black women in the industry, it\u2019s impacted over 500 tech founders and helped get 13 funded. As CEO of her first company, KeepUp, Lauren was one of 11 winners out of 7000 applicants for the 43North competition- the largest global business competition- winning $250K and a year of office space and mentorship. Throughout her career, Lauren has been on the cusp of innovation and digital strategy in various industries and over a multitude of brands. She helped drive some of the first social media and mobile marketing efforts early in her career at both InStyle magazine and TVGuide.com. At Neutrogena Cosmetics, Lauren worked in the innovation department to guide the development and launch of new products. As an in-house consultant for Omnicom Group, she rotated through DDB, Interbrand, PHD and Sterling Brands, creating and bringing brand strategy to life for top global companies. In her most recent role as the Director of Strategy at the digital and social media firm, Attention, she led a department of qualitative and quantitative research and strategic planning for all clients. Lauren received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a major in Journalism and Mass Communication and her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management with majors in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Marketing and Finance. She was the Board Vice Chairman of the non-profit, The Global Language Project, the head of the Social Impact Committee in the Kellogg Alumni Club of New York and a Management Leadership for Tomorrow mentor. [\/panel] [panel header=\"Kitty Yeung | Microsoft\"] Kitty Yeung<\/a> is a physicist, artist, maker, fashion designer and musician based in Silicon Valley, California. She currently works as a creative technologist and manager at The Garage<\/a>, Microsoft. Kitty\u2019s earlier career had been focused on hardcore scientific research and academic training while pursuing artistic endeavors through painting, music and graphic novel creations. She received her PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University and a M.Sci., B.A. and M.A. in Natural Sciences from University of Cambridge. After conducting research at Intel, Kitty found the perfect way to integrate art\/design with science\/technology. Her work focuses on applying cutting-edge technologies to both garment design and manufacturing processes and quantum computing education. 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