The annual Future Leaders Summit offers outstanding graduate students, postdocs, and early-career faculty from around the US the opportunity to engage in research discussions with peers and with research leaders, and receive career mentoring, as they grow to become leaders in data science and artificial intelligence (AI) research.
Theme: “Responsible Data Science and AI”
Data science and AI are having a significant impact on society in uncountable ways, leading to huge benefits in many cases. Yet, increasingly complex analytical pipelines working with poorly understood heterogeneous data sets can give rise to harms in many ways. Furthermore, there could be deleterious systemic effects such as the magnification of disinformation or surveillance capitalism. There has been tremendous recent interest in understanding and managing these concerns. The Summit will explore in-depth topics in this broad area, including, but not limited to:
- Responsible AI in science and engineering. Established in 2022, MIDAS is home to the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship. With this, we are dedicated to promoting responsible data science and AI for natural sciences and engineering.
- Equity and fairness, particularly in automated decision making
- Explainability of analytical results
- Reproducibility and replication of scientific results
- Systemic issues, particularly those impacting marginalized populations
Activities
April 8 – Attending the annual Ethical AI symposium, and presenting a poster on your research.
April 9-10
- Research discussion sessions with fellow FLS attendees and faculty mentors.
- Career mentoring sessions: preparing for job interviews; career opportunities in academia, industry, and other organizations; negotiating job offers; setting up for success as a junior faculty member.
- Networking sessions with FLS attendees.
- Research connection sessions with University of Michigan faculty members and postdocs.
Attendees
Maryam Berijanian, Michigan State University
Isabela Bertolini Coelho, University of Maryland
Brooks Butler, Purdue University
Lucius Bynum, New York University
César Claros, University of Delaware
Anja Conev, Rice University, Ken Kennedy Institute
Diamond Cunningham, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Matthew DeVerna, Indiana University Bloomington
Majid Farhadloo, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Emily Fletcher, Purdue University
Neil Gaikwad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Katherine Rose Garcia, Rice University, Ken Kennedy Institute
Ryan Gifford, The Ohio State University
Bhanu Gullapalli, University of California-San Diego
Yifei Huang, University of Illinois at Chicago
Zachary Jacokes, University of Virginia
Lavender Jiang, New York University
Wenxin Jiang, Purdue University
Ðorđe Klisura, University of Texas at San Antonio
Olivia Krebs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jessica Leivesley, University of Toronto
Yaqi Li, University of Oklahoma, Health Science Center
Tony Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Stephanie Milani, Carnegie Mellon University
Bernardo Modenesi, University of Michigan
Nasim Sonboli, Brown University
Harsh Parikh, Johns Hopkins University
Rahul Ramesh, University of Pennsylvania
Ransalu Senanayake, Arizona State University
Subhasree Sengupta, Clemson University
Ryan Standfield, Jackson State University
Tiffany Tang, University of Michigan
Shantanu Vyas, Texas A&M, College Station
Guanchu Wang, Rice University
Haoyu Wang, Purdue University
Galen Weld, University of Washington
Siyu Wu, Pennsylvania State University
Yuchen Zeng, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Career Mentors
Brittany Aguilar
Science Associate, Schmidt Sciences
Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly
Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering, University of Michigan
Bill Currie
Associate Dean, Research and Engagement, Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability
Jamal El-Hindi
Former U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Deputy Director, Clifford Chance
Arya Farahi
Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics and Data Science, University of Texas, Austin
Kent Foster
Director, Innovation + Society, Microsoft
R. Stuart Geiger
Assistant Professor, Dept of Communication and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute; Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Practical Ethics, Computer Science & Engineering, and Computational Social Science, University of California, San Diego
Min Kyung Lee
Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Texas, Austin
Michael Tjalve
Chief AI Architect, Tech for Social Impact at Microsoft Philanthropies; Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington
Elizabeth Yakel
Olivia Frost Collegiate Professor of Information, School of Information; Faculty Associate, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
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