The 2021 Symposium on
Artificial Intelligence
for Social Good
April 30, 2021. EASTERN TIME (UTC-4). Virtual.
PROGRAM
(9:00-10:30) PANEL 1: AI FOR SOCIAL GOOD IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT
Moderators: Fei Fang, Ryan Shi
Olubayo Adekanmbi
Chief Transformation Officer, MTN Nigeria
Founder, Data Science Nigeria
Bo An
Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University
Tara Chklovski
Founder & CEO, Iridescent (now Technovation)
Ernest Mwebaze
Research Scientist, Google
Director, Sunbird.ai
(11:00-12:30) PANEL 2: DEPLOYMENT & IMPACT OF AI FOR SOCIAL GOOD
Moderators: Ryan Shi, Fei Fang
Sera Linardi
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Founder & Director, Center for Analytical Approaches to Social Innovation
Miguel Luengo-Oroz
Chief Data Scientist, United Nations Global Pulse
Co-founder, Malariaspot & Spotlab
Bill Thies
Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Co-founder and Chairman, Everwell
Kush R. Varshney
Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM Research AI
Co-director, IBM Science for Social Good Initiative
Ellen W. Zegura
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
(14:00-15:30) TALKS: RECENT WORKS ON AI FOR SOCIAL GOOD
Stefano Ermon
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Diyi Yang
Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Yexiang Xue
Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Sarah Williams
Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel B. Neill
Associate Professor, New York University
Co-Director, NYU Urban Initiative
Bistra Dilkina
Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Co-Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society
Amulya Yadav
Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Ana-Andreea Stoica
Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
Shahrzad Gholami
Data & Applied Scientist, Microsoft
(16:00-17:30) PANEL 3: DOING RESEARCH IN AI FOR SOCIAL GOOD
Moderators: Rex Chen, Ryan Shi
Rayid Ghani
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Founder & Director, Data Science for Social Good Fellowship
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Professor, University of British Columbia
Co-founder, Kudu.ug
Emma Pierson
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Milind Tambe
Professor, Harvard University
Director, Center for Research on Computation and Society
Director, AI for Social Good, Google Research India
Phebe Vayanos
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Associate Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society