8 Amazing Women Leaders in AI, ML & Data Science
Posted by jamesscarteer on June 24th, 2019
With the rapidly evolving paradigm surrounding the gender roles, women have certainly been excelling in the areas that were once exclusively reserved for men. From International Politics and Astrophysics to Entrepreneurship and Artificial Intelligence, there is hardly any field left where women need to demonstrate their intellectual mettle.
This post is all about these wonder women, who not only pose as the perfect mothers, wives & daughters but are also the driving force behind technological disruptions brought upon by the AI, ML and Data Science.
Let us take a look!
Jennifer Chayes
Jennifer Chayes, a PhD holder from Princeton University in Mathematical Physics surely has some professional badges to flaunt. Chayes is the Managing Director at Microsoft Research and a renowned Scientist in Machine Learning and Data Science. Her motto is ‘keep all the doubts aside and simply believe in your own ability.’ Addressing in a Data Science conference for women, she advises everyone to ‘Not give any attention to the part of your brain that makes you doubt on your own abilities, makes you feel like an imposter.’ According to her, anyone can achieve anything by not listening to the part of the brain that induces self-doubt.
Jill Dyche
When one talks of Versatile women personalities, the kind that would save the environment and contribute to the forefronts of Digital age, Jill Dyche’s name cannot be missed. Dyche is the Vice President of SAS Best Practices at the SAS Institute. She is also the author of The New IT: How Technology Leaders are Enabling Business Strategy in the Digital Age. When Dyche is not busy advocating the career benefits of SAS certification & training, she is working on her side projects. The most recent of her side projects is an eBook on how simple improvements in the animal shelter practices can increase the pet adoption rates.
Carrie Grimes Bostock
It is all brains with this lady! Carrie Bostock holds a PhD in Statistics from the Stanford University along with an AB in Anthropology from the Harvard University. Bostock is a distinguished Engineer at Google and has spent her entire professional lifespan at Google itself. Carrie is currently a part of the Technical Institute group and looks after Data-driven resource planning, distributed cluster management software, and cost analysis for Google’s various Data undertakings. Carrie Grimes Bostock is a woman gem in the field of Data-driven technologies.
Carla Gentry
A renowned ‘Data Nerd’ who goes by the same name on Social Media, Carla Gentry is one of the top Data Science influencers and Digital Marketing Manager at Samtec. Her specialty? Taking huge databases, decoding the business needs, and coming back with the Business Intelligence that projects trends, spending and profits. Carla Gentry has delivered value to many Fortune 500 enterprises with her skillset. Carla wears the badge of ‘Data Nerd’ with honor and believes in the motto ‘Knowledge is power,’ which companies are now waking up to. Carla Gentry also holds degrees in Mathematics and Economics.
Megan Price
She is the Executive Director at Human Rights Data Analysis Group @hrdag. Megan Price’s organization makes use of statistical analysis to bring about evidence to testify and push for action and change. These actions can relate to Environment and Human Rights Welfare. HRDA has worked on a number of projects worldwide including Guatemala, Columbia, and Syria. For the Syria projects, Price served as the lead statistician and authored two recent reports commissioned by the Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights. The project related to documenting deaths in that country. Megan is a research fellow at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Human Rights Science, and a PhD holder in biostatistics.
Neha Narkhede
Neha Narkhede is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at Confluent, a company that is driving a popular big data tool that enables real-time streaming capabilities - Apache Kafka. Neha’s vision manifested into the real-world technology with her fellow co-founders when they were working at LinkedIn. Neha has established a stronghold in the world of AI, ML and Big Data making India proud.
Fei-Fei Li
Li is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department at Stanford. She is also the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Stanford Vision Lab. Here, Fei-Fei works with the most brilliant students and colleagues located worldwide to build smart algorithms. These algorithms enable computers and robots to ‘see and think,’ as well as to conduct cognitive and neuroimaging experiments to discover how brains work, process information while thinking. Li holds a Ph.D. from Caltech making her one of the top intellectuals in the field of AI and Computer Vision.
Monica Rogati
Monica Rogati is a Data Colective & AI Advisor working independently. Monica is the former Vice President of Data at wearables company Jawbone and a former data scientist from LinkedIn. Presently, Monica is focused on providing technical due diligence and advice to the Data Collective Venture Capital groups and serves as an advisor for the Insight Data Science Fellows Program, a post-doctoral training fellowship for bridging the gap between academia and data science careers. Rogati’s repo in the AI and ML world is well known given that Fortune 500 companies always reach out to her for crucial advice.
These women have established a new benchmark for women’s success in the emerging tech fields. Are you ready to set yours? Like and share this post. Cheers!
