WiDS Worldwide 2021 Speakers 

Here is our line-up of data science experts and thought leaders who spoke at WiDS Worldwide 2021! 

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Abebe

Jr Fellow,
Assistant Professor

Harvard University, UC Berkeley

Fatima
Abu Salem

associate
Professor
​

American University of Beirut

Aishwarya
Agrawal

Assistant professor,
dept of computer
science & operations
research

University of Montreal

Rosalind
​Archer

Professor
​

University​ of Auckland

Jo
​Boaler

Professor of
education

​Stanford University

Daniela
Braga

founder and ceo

DefinedCrowd

Loreto
Bravo

data science institute
director

UDD

Afua
Bruce

chief program officer

DataKind

Zhamak
Dehghani

Director of next tech
incubation

Thoughtworks

Nazareen
Ebrahim

AI ETHICS OFFICER

Socially Acceptable - South Africa

Karina
Edmonds

VP, Head of academies
& university alliances

SAP

Hulya
​Emir-Farinas

Director of 
Data Science​

FitBit​

Emily
Fox

Distinguished engineer, professor

Apple, 
​University of Washington 

Margot
​Gerritsen​

Professor and WiDS co-director​​​

​Stanford University​

Andrea
Ghez

Professor of Physics and astronomy

UCLA

Lesly
Goh

Senior Fellow

National University of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew
School of Public Policy

Andrea
Goldsmith

dean of engineering and applied science​​​

Princeton University

Shafi
Goldwasser

director, professor

UC Berkeley, MIT / Weizmann Institute of Science

Mary
Gray

Senior Principal
Researcher & Associate professor

Microsoft Research,
Indiana University
​

Kalinda
Griffiths

scientia lecturer

Centre for Big Data Research in Health,
UNSW​

Danielle
Jiang

Assistant director

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Sharada
Kalanidhi

WiDS datathon
co-chair

Stanford University

Martina 
Lauchengco​

Operating Partner,
Board Member​​​

Costanoa Ventures​

Meredith
Lee

Chief technical advisor to the associate provost

UC Berkeley Computing,
Data Science and Society

Jean
Liu

President

Didi Chuxing 
​

Judy
Logan

WiDS Co-Director

Stanford University
​
​

Xin
Ma

Managing director
asian platform

TOTAL

Dina
Machuve

lecturer
and researcher

​Nelson Mandala African Institution of Science and Technology

Geetha
Manjunath

Founder and
CEo

Niramai

Karen
Matthys

WiDS Co-Director​,
Executive Director of external partners​
Stanford icme

Stanford University

Andrea
Martin

Leader IBM Watson CENTER
MUNICH & EMEA CLIENTS
CENTER

IBM

Shir
Meir Lador

Data Science Group Manager

Intuit

Amanda
Obidike

Executive director
​

STEMi Makers Africa

Cindy Orozco Bohorquez

PH.D. Candidate​
​

Stanford University

Gina
​Papush

Global Chief Data
and analytics officer

Evernorth

Joëlle
Pineau

Associate Professor,
Team Lead​

McGill University, Facebook

Nida
Rizwan Farid

Aerospace engineer and energy efficiency
consultant

Save Joules

Michelle
Rodriguez

Dean of school of
engineering

Universidad del Pacifico

Monica
Scannapieco

Head of division
information &
application architecture

The Italian National
Institute of Statistics

Maria
Schuld

Senior researcher
​

Xanadu, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal

Fernanda
​Viégas

Principal scientist

Google​

Corinne
Vigreux

Co-Founder and CMO of tomtom; Founder of codam college

TomTom

Talitha
Washington

Professor of Mathematics,
director

Clark Atlanta University,  Atlanta University Center

Suzanne
Weekes

Professor, executive
director

WPI, SIAM