Future Leaders Summit 2024

April 8-10, 2024
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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.

Ethical AI Symposium

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:

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
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.

Summit Activities

Attending the annual Ethical AI symposium, and presenting a poster on your research – April 8.
Research discussion sessions with fellow FLS attendees and faculty mentors – April 9 – 10.
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 – April 9 – 10.
Networking sessions with FLS attendees – April 9 – 10.
Research connection sessions with University of Michigan faculty members and postdocs – April 9 – 10.

Summit 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