Adrian Weller is Programme Director for AI at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK national institute for data science and AI, and is a Turing AI Fellow leading work on trustworthy Machine Learning (ML). He is a Principal Research Fellow in ML at the University of Cambridge, and at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence where he is Programme Director for Trust and Society. His interests span AI, its commercial applications and helping to ensure beneficial outcomes for society. Previously, Adrian held senior roles in finance. He received a PhD in computer science from Columbia University, and an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr. Nuria Oliver is co-founder and Director of the “Institute of Humanity-centric AI (Alicante ELLIS Unit); Chief Data Scientist at Data-Pop Alliance, Chief Scientific Advisor at the Vodafone Institute and co-founder and vicepresident of ELLIS (The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems). She is a Telecommunications Engineer from the UPM and holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds an honorary PhD from the Univ Miguel Hernandez.
She has over 25 years of research experience in the areas of human behavior modeling and prediction from data and human-computer interaction. She has been a researcher at Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA), the first female Scientific Director at Telefonica R&D for over 8 years and the first Director of Research in Data Science at Vodafone globally (2017-2019). Between March 2020 and April 2022, she served as Commissioner for the President of the Valencian Region on AI Strategy and Data Science to fight COVID-19. In that role, she co-led ValenciaIA4COVID, the winning team of the 500k XPRIZE Pandemic Response Challenge. Their work was featured in WIRED, Politico and MSNBC, among other media.
As an advisor, Dr. Oliver has been/is an advisor to several governments and …
Andrew Gordon Wilson is faculty in the Courant Institute and Center for Data Science at NYU. His interests include probabilistic modelling, Gaussian processes, Bayesian statistics, physics inspired machine learning, and loss surfaces and generalization in deep learning. His webpage is https://cims.nyu.edu/~andrewgw.
Dr. Bo Li is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She is the recipient of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, AI’s 10 to Watch, NSF CAREER Award, MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, C.W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Intel Rising Star award, Symantec Research Labs Fellowship, Rising Star Award, Research Awards from Tech companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Intel, IBM, and eBay, and best paper awards at several top machine learning and security conferences. Her research focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects of trustworthy machine learning, which is at the intersection of machine learning, security, privacy, and game theory. She has designed several scalable frameworks for trustworthy machine learning and privacy-preserving data publishing. Her work has been featured by major publications and media outlets such as Nature, Wired, Fortune, and New York Times.
Jonathan is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics at NUS. His research interests are in information theory, machine learning, and high-dimensional statistics, particularly their intersection. He is a holder of the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) fellowship and the NUS Presidential Young Professorship. Previously, he did his post-doc at EPFL and his PhD at the University of Cambridge.
Jung-Woo Ha got his BS and PhD degrees in computer science from Seoul National University in 2004 and 2015. He got the 2014 Fall semester outstanding PhD dissertation award from Computer Science Dept. of Seoul National University. He worked as a research scientist and tech lead at NAVER LABS and research head of NAVER CLOVA. Currently, he works as the head of NAVER AI Lab in NAVER Cloud. He has contributed to the AI research community as Datasets and Benchmarks Co-chair for NeurIPS and Social Co-chair for ICML 2023 and NeurIPS 2022. Also, he has joined a senior technical program committee member, such as, Area chair for NeurIPS 2023 and 2022, Area chair for ICML 2023, and Senior area chair for COLING. His research interests include large language models, generative models, multimodal representation learning and their practical applications for real-world problems. In particular, he has mainly focused on practical task definition and evaluation protocol for continual learning in various domains.