EPISODE · Sep 21, 2022 · 58 MIN
Trustworthy Machine Learning // Kush Varshney // Coffee Sessions #124
from MLOps.community · host Demetrios
MLOps Coffee Sessions #124 with Kush Varshney, Distinguished Research Staff Member and Manager, IBM Research, Trustworthy Machine Learning, co-hosted by Krishnaram Kenthapadi.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinInGet the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter// Abstract Trustworthy ML is a way of thinking and something to be worked on and operationalized throughout the entire machine learning development lifecycle, starting from the problem specification phase, which should include diverse stakeholders.// Bio Kush R. Varshney was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1982. He received a B.S. degree (magna cum laude) in electrical and computer engineering with honors from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 2004. He received the S.M. degree in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree in 2010, both in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge. While at MIT, he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.Dr. Varshney is a distinguished research staff member and manager with IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he leads the machine learning group in the Foundations of Trustworthy AI department. He was a visiting scientist at IBM Research - Africa, Nairobi, Kenya in 2019. He is the founding co-director of the IBM Science for Social Good initiative. He applies data science and predictive analytics to human capital management, healthcare, olfaction, computational creativity, public affairs, international development, and algorithmic fairness, which has led to recognitions such as the 2013 Gerstner Award for Client Excellence for contributions to the WellPoint team and the Extraordinary IBM Research Technical Accomplishment for contributions to workforce innovation and enterprise transformation. He conducts academic research on the theory and methods of trustworthy machine learning. His work has been recognized through best paper awards at the Fusion 2009, SOLI 2013, KDD 2014, and SDM 2015 conferences and the 2019 Computing Community Consortium / Schmidt Futures Computer Science for Social Good White Paper Competition. He self-published a book entitled 'Trustworthy Machine Learning in 2022, available at http://www.trustworthymachinelearning.com. He is a senior member of the IEEE.// MLOps Jobs board jobs.mlops.community // MLOps Swag/Merch https://mlops-community.myshopify.com/ // Related Links--------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our Slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slackFollow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/registerCatch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/Connect with Krishnaram on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnaramkenthapadiConnect with Kush on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushvarshney/Timestamps:[00:00] Kush Varshney's introduction[02:16] Takeaways[07:56] Talking about TRUST[12:44] Trustworthy AI[19:32] Adopting Trustworthy Machine Learning[22:19] Weapons of Math Destruction book - biases[30:34] Problem sources[38:08] Self-publishing a Trustworthy Machine Learning book [43:36] Changing the Nature of AI Research by Professor Subbarao Kambhampati[50:08] IBM research support[52:00] Wrap up
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