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Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n CEO,\nAffectiva<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\nShe Does<\/strong> \u2013 She is regarded as the pioneer in\nemotional AI or emotional intelligence (EQ). She co-founded the start-up\nAffectiva, and invented the emotion recognition technology, which is used by\nthe company to give life to their mission i.e. Humanize Technology with Artificial\nEmotional Intelligence. Prior to founding Affectiva, she headed applications\nfor facial coding to benefit mental health, autism and other research areas as\na research scientist at MIT Media Lab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Fei-Fei Li<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n Co-Director,\nStanford University’s Human-Centered AI Institute and Stanford Vision Lab &\nCo-Founder AI4ALL. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\nShe Does<\/strong> \u2013 Currently the Co-Director of Stanford\nUniversity’s Human-Centered AI Institute and the Stanford Vision and Learning\nLab. In 2017, she co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization working to\nincrease diversity and inclusion in the field of artificial intelligence. Li\nalso joined Google Cloud as Chief Scientist of Artificial Intelligence &\nMachine Learning to advance her mission of \u201cdemocratizing AI\u201d. She is best\nknown for her prominent work is in the field of computer vision. She is also\npart of scientific teams who have made advancements in image recognition\nsoftware. Beyond meek identification of objects in visuals, Image Recognition\ncan now recognize scenes and generate descriptions of them in English \u2013 Thanks\nto Li and her team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Daphne Koller<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n Founder\nAnd CEO, Insitro<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\nShe Does<\/strong> \u2013 Koller is considered as one of the leading\nscientists in the field of AI. She initiated and led one of the worlds largest online\neducation platform, Coursera. She was an artificial intelligence researcher at\nthe Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and, chief computing\nofficer at Alphabet\u2019s Calico Labs. Koller is now heading new machine learning\ndrug discovery venture called Insitro. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. Cynthia Breazeal<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n Founder\n& Chief Scientist – Jibo, Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\nShe Does<\/strong> – Founder and Chief Scientist at Jibo,\nInc., i.e. a firm that focusses in developing social robots, and a pioneer in\nSocial Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction. Cynthia\u2019s research mainly focusses\non developing the principles, technologies, and techniques, for personal robots\nwhich are socially intelligent and can communicate with humans on human-centric\nterms. In addition to this, Cynthia is also associated with MIT as Associate\nProfessor of Media Arts and Science. At MIT, she founded and directs the\nPersonal Robots Group at the Media Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. Latanya Sweeney<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n Professor\nat Harvard University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\nShe Does<\/strong> \u2013 She is the Professor of Government and\nTechnology at Harvard and Director of Harvard\u2019s Data Privacy Lab. Prior to this,\nshe served as the Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission. She has\nmade several contributions to privacy technology and best-known for her academic\nwork on the theory of k-anonymity. At Harvard Sweeney tackles socio-political\nand governance issues with technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. Aleatha Parker-Wood<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nSr.\nPrincipal Research Engineer and Manager at Symantec<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\nShe Does<\/strong> \u2013 She led a team of Ph.D. researchers\ndedicated to protecting people and their data, using hi-tech Machine Learning\nand security expertise. In addition to research, she also teaches and mentors\nthe next generation of engineers and scientists. At Symantec, she created and\ndeployed advanced ML which powers symantec\u2019s latest antivirus product. Aleatha\nalso created ML for URL reputation engines, Advanced Threat Protection, and\nmany Symantec products. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
7. Catherine Havasi<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n Principal,\nSnowcap Ai & CEO, Luminoso <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\nshe does<\/strong> – Havasi is Principal at Smowcap Ai, a\ncompany that aims to help businesses extract real value from artificial\nintelligence and emerging technologies. She is also CEO and co-founder at Luminoso.\nHavasi was one of the people behind ConceptNet, an open-source natural language\nartificial intelligence program and one of the creators of the MIT\u2019s Open Mind\nCommon Sense project. In 2015, she was named one of the \u201c100 Most Creative\nPeople in Business\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
8. Carol Reiley<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n Co-Founder\n& President, Drive.ai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\nShe Does<\/strong> – An engineering entrepreneur, AI\nroboticist, and executive, Carol is also nicknamed as \u201cMother Of Robots\u201d. She co-founded\nmultiple startups and launched several robotics products in highly regulated\nindustries. She is also the co-founder of drive.ai, a Silicon Valley startup\nspecializing in Level 4 self-driving cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
9. Manuela M. Veloso<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n Professor\nat Carnegie Mellon University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\nShe Does<\/strong> – Veloso is observed as an international\nexpert on AI, robotics and machine learning. She is head of Machine Learning\nDepartment in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and\nprofessor at Herbert A. Simon University. Veloso was the co-founder and former\npresident of the RoboCup Federation, and until 2014 she was the president of\nAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
10. Hilary Mason<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n GM\nof Machine Learning, Cloudera <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\nShe Does<\/strong> \u2013 GM of Research at Cloudera. Hilary is\nalso the Founder of Fast Forward Labs, a machine intelligence research company,\nand was the Data Scientist in Residence at Accel and the Chief Scientist at\nbitly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
11. Cassie Kozyrkov<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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