LXAI July Newsletter
Highlights
We are excited to welcome new members to our board and volunteer list!
Yannet Interian, Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco is joining our education and research committees.
Yannet’s Bio:
Yannet is an Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco. Her research interests are data mining and applied statistics, using large datasets. She solves problems from advertising, viral media and online social networks. She holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Havana, Cuba. She was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. She worked for five years as a Data Scientist at Google. She co-founded Akualab, a start-up that helped organizations develop data-driven products using machine intelligence. She has designed data science courses for Berkeley and USF and is currently teaching full time for USF’s Master’s in Data Science program.
Learn more about Yannet’s background and publications: https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/yannet-interian
Luz Gonzalez, Founder and CEO at Konviv is joining our Outreach committee.
Luz’s Bio:
All my life I have been obsessed with scaling social impact at an international scale. My immigrant experience, as well as my intimate understanding of the trying financial circumstances in my youth, led to me having an obsession with global social impact, and more specifically, global financial empowerment. My focus on impact has guided everything I’ve done professionally — from my undergraduate studies at Cal, serving as a court monitor for the Charles Taylor case in the Hague, serving for Teach For America, attending Berkeley Law School, my entry into tech as an early employee in an EdTech startup, and currently, my work leading Konviv. I regard my work at Konviv as the culmination of all my previous endeavors, and see it as my life’s work.
I also do consulting as a lifestyle and mindset high-performance coach, working with people who want to step up and push themselves to live life in a way that feels in alignment with the vision of life that they have for themselves. So many people settle for lives that aren’t really of their choosing, and they end up feeling resentful and feeling disappointed that they didn’t show up for their own dreams and goals. I work with clients to help them clarify the vision they have for themselves, based on solid foundations that are values-based in terms of what is truly important to my client, and then we work together to build accountability systems and make sure they are making giant strides towards reaching their objective.
Learn more: https://www.luzcgonzalez.com/
New blog writer for the LXAI publication, Lauren Michelle Pfeifer, Investor at Maschmeyer Group Ventures. Lauren identifies as an investor, electrical engineering/CS student, latina, and is obsessed with infosec, AI, and all things mechatronics.
Read her first featured post shared in our publication: 4 Ways AI is Tackling Depression!
We completed the inaugural AI Fintech Forum, the first ever gathering on AI Fintech policy, engineering, and research, for and by diverse tech entrepreneurs on July 21st, 2018 and it was a great success!
We were honored to feature 21 speakers from such notable companies as Google, Oracle, Dow Jones, Aikon, Republic Crypto, Dutch National Bank, Quantstamp, Eurekah, BestRate, DoubleNova, and Quantifind just to name a few.
It was wonderful collaborating with the Latinos in Finance organization, big thanks to Hector Martinez for his hard work and dedication in making this event possible.
Check out all the pictures of our fun on our shared google photo album: http://bit.ly/AIFF-Photo-Album
Upcoming Events
LXAI August AI Workshop on August 14th, 2018 — Recommendation Systems with Matrix Factorization in Pytorch.
Join us: https://www.meetup.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Deep-Learning-Enthusiasts-Meetup/events/253308422/
Latinx in AI Coalition will be presenting a technical workshop at the Global Big Data Conference, Aug 28th — 30th in Santa Clara, CA.
La primera “Reunion Internacional de Inteligencia Artificial y sus Aplicaciones” en Mexico (RIIAA@MEX) this 24, 25 yand 26 of august in Mexico City
Quieres participar como asistente, panelista, y/o estudiante de la escuela de verano? Visita la convocatoria! https://riiaa.org/convocatoria/
ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2018 September 19th to 22nd, 2018. LXAI board members will be participating as speakers, presenting on the topic of Dealing with Bias and Unfairness in Machine Learning Algorithms.
TECHSUYO 2018 is a non-profit event that will be held at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology from September 28th to 29th. Omar Florez, PhD, Research committee lead for LXAI will be participating as the Keynote for this conference.
Research Opportunities
Submit your abstract to the 1st Official LXAI Research Workshop co-located with NIPS at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal (Montreal Convention Centre) in Montréal CANADA on Friday, December 6th, 2018.
Details: http://www.latinxinai.org/nips-2018
LXAI is launching our own research initiative to mitigate affects of bias in machine learning algorithms. If you’re interested in contributing to our research efforts, reach out for more information via email latinxinai@accel.ai.
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer with Latinx in AI Coalition: http://bit.ly/LXAI-Volunteer
LXAI Publication
Read all of this month’s blog publications from the Latinx in AI network!
One LEGO at a time: Explaining the Math of How Neural Networks Learn by Omar Florez — https://medium.com/latinxinai/one-lego-at-a-time-explaining-the-math-of-how-neural-networks-learn-6c66df90a9c7
You can also find this post in Spanish on our publication: https://medium.com/latinxinai/un-lego-a-la-vez-explicando-la-matem%C3%A1tica-de-como-las-redes-neuronales-aprenden-ae582ab91da6
4 Ways AI is tackling Depression by Lauren Michelle Pfeifer — https://medium.com/latinxinai/4-ways-ai-is-tackling-depression-7f6cfb22cfd0
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