Women in Data Science
(WiDS) Worldwide Online
​Conference Schedule 2022

The WiDS Worldwide online conference features keynotes, technical vision talks,
panel discussions, workshops, a career expo, meet-the-speaker interviews, and multiple opportunities to network with other attendees.
March 7, 2022, on Hopin

Registration is now closed, but the conference is also available via livestream from 8:00am-5:00pm PST. 
Online Agenda (all times PST)
6:00-8:00 am
Career Expo with WiDS Sponsors
​& Networking
6:00 - 6:10 am
Opening Address  
​Michelle Rodriquez Serra, Professor and Researcher, Universidad del Pacifico ​​
6:10 - 6:15 am
Interlude
Yoko Ono, WiDS Tokyo @ Yokohama City University ambassador
6:15 - 6:55 am
Workshop
How can we make sense of the unseen world? Using AI, sensors, and IoT for scene exploration.
Louvere Walker-Hannon, Application Engineering Senior Team Lead, MathWorks
Loren Shure, Consulting Application Engineer, MathWorks
Sarah Mohamed, Senior Software Engineer,  MathWorks
Shruti Karulkar, Quality Engineering Manager, MathWorks
6:55-7:05 am
Meet-the-Speaker interview
on theCUBE
Cecilia Aragon, Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
7:05-7:45 am
Workshop
Data Storytelling for Data Scientists
Hana M.K., Data Storytelling and Presentation Instructor
Host of “The Art of Communicating Data” show
7:45am-7:55 am
Meet-the-Speaker interview 
on theCUBE
​Vidya Setlur, Director of Tableau Research, Tableau
7:55-8:00 am
Interlude
Catie Cuan, PhD student, Stanford University
8:00 - 8:10 am
WiDS ​​Welcome
​WiDS Co-Directors: Margot Gerritsen, Karen Matthys, and ​Judy Logan, ​Stanford University
8:10 - 8:25 am
Opening Address
Debra Satz, Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences​, Stanford University
8:25 - 8:55 am
Keynote Address
The Rigorous and Human Life
​of Data
Cecilia Aragon, Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
8:55 - 9:00 am
Interlude 
Sulakshana Sreeram, WiDS Hyderabad Ambassador
9:00 - 9:30 am
Technical Vision Talks
​     9:00 - 9:15 am
​Estimating Undocumented Human Rights Violations in Conflict Settings
Maria Gargiulo, Statistician, Human Rights Data Analyst Group
      9:15 - 9:30 am
A Turing Test for Chest Radiology AI
Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood,  IBM Fellow, IBM Research Center
9:30 - 9:50 am
Morning Break - WiDS interviews on theCUBE
9:50 - 10:35 am
Panel: Data Science in Healthcare: Opportunities & Challenges​​
Moderated by Tina Hernandez Boussard, Associate Professor, Stanford University
Panelists: ​​​
10:35 - 11:05 am
Technical Vision Talks
     ​10:35 - 10:50 am
Beyond Bias: Algorithmic Unfairness, Infrastructure and Genealogies of Data 
Alex Hanna, Director of Research, DAIR Institute
     10:50 - 11:05 am
Confronting Data Bias in Travel Demand Modeling 
Tierra Bills, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public Policy, UCLA
​11:05- 11:10 am
WiDS Datathon, ​Winners Announced
Weiwei Pan, Research Associate & WiDS Datathon Co-Chair, Harvard University IACS
Sharada Kalanidhi, Data Scientist & WiDS Datathon Co-Chair, Stanford University
​11:10- 11:55 am
Panel: Algorithms and Data for Equity
Moderated by Jenny Suckale, Associate Professor, Stanford University
Panelists: ​​
  • Tierra Bills, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public Policy, UCLA
  • Jessica Granderson, Director for Building Technology, White House Council on Environmental Quality
  • Ling Jin, Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
12:00- 1:00 pm
Career Expo with WiDS Sponsors
​& Networking
1:00 - 1:25 pm
Afternoon Keynote
What makes intelligent visual analytics tools really intelligent?
Vidya Setlur, Director of Tableau Research, Tableau
1:25- 1:55 pm
Technical Vision Talks
     1:25 - 1:40 pm
Inclusive Search and Recommendations 
Nadia Fawaz, Senior Staff Applied Research Scientist - Tech Lead Inclusive AI, Pinterest
     1:40 - 1:55 pm
A Mathematician's View of Machine Learning (and Why It Matters)
Tamara Kolda, Mathematical Consultant, MathSci.ai
1:55- 2:00 pm
Interlude
Andrea Gagliano, Head of Data Science, AI/ML , Getty Images
2:00 - 2:40 pm
Career Panel 
Moderated by Suzanne Weekes, Executive Director, SIAM
Panelists: 
2:40 - 3:00 pm
Afternoon Break ​- On livestream: ​WiDS interviews by theCUBE
3:00 - 3:30 pm
Fireside Chat
Moderated by Margot Gerritsen, Professor of Energy Resources Engineering & WiDS Co-Director Stanford University
​3:30 - 3:45 pm
Technical Vision Talks
     3:30 - 3:45 pm
Skydio Autonomy: Data-Driven Approaches Towards Real-Time 3D Reconstruction in Drones 
Maggie Wang, Robotics Software Engineer, Skydio
     3:45 - 4:00 pm
Unsupervised Learning for Network Intrusion Detection 
Nandi Leslie, Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Technologies
     4:00- 4:15 pm
Replication, Robustness and Interpretability: Improving How We Communicate Scientific Findings  
​Chiara Sabatti, Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Statistics, Stanford University​
4:15 - 4:20
Interlude
WiDS Education Outreach
4:20 - 4:50 pm
Technical Vision Talks
     4:20 - 4:35 pm
Using Wearable Data to Empower Individuals in Managing Their Health
Torey Lee, Senior Data Scientist, WHOOP
     4:35 - 4:50 pm
Data Science for Equitable Recovery and Resilience
Denice Ross, U.S. Chief Data Scientist, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
4:50 - 5:00 pm
Closing Address
Rukmini Iyer, Distinguished Engineer, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Career Expo with WiDS Sponsors
​& Networking

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