Women in Data Science Puget Sound 2024

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Women in Data Science Puget Sound 2024

WiDS Puget Sound is independently organized by Diversity in Data Science.

9:00am PDT

Opening Ceremony Room 160, Student CenterKelly Stroh • Yashaswini Agarwal • Niwako Sugimura

9:15am PDT

How to thrive in the world of AI Room 160, Student CenterTeresa Escrig, PhD

10:05am PDT

Advancing Retail Fraud Prevention with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink: A Real-Time Event-Streaming Approach Room 160, Student CenterZhamilya Kruger As easy as breathing - manage your workflows with Airflow! Room 130, Student CenterMadison Swain-Bowden GANs for Causal Inference: Harnessing Conditional Independence Room 220, Student CenterPalak Bansal • Ridhika Agrawal • Hoa Duong

10:35am PDT

Novel semi-supervised clustering algorithm drastically improves consistency and interpretability in cancer drug development. Room 160, Student CenterMarie Wang, PhD Trustworthy Automation: A Case Study in Explainable Generative AI for Driver Decision Making Room 130, Student CenterMayuree Binjolkar Womansplaining the Journey: Empowering Women to Thrive in Data Science Careers Room 220, Student CenterSara Riker

10:50am PDT

Causal Insights From Observational Data: A Hands-On Python Workshop Campion BallroomSarah Shy • Huibin Hu • Ganga Meghanath

11:05am PDT

Leveraging OpenAI: A Business Application Use Case Room 220, Student CenterJyoti Vasudev Towards sustainability: leverage deep learning in electric vehicle (EV) charging demand prediction Room 130, Student CenterYuanjie Tu Training Efficient Open Source Large Language Models Room 160, Student CenterTessa Barton

11:35am PDT

Ethical Implementation of Generative AI in Business Use Cases: A Practical Guide for Innovating Responsibly Room 130, Student CenterMeltem Gurcay-Morris, PhD Synthetic Data for Instrument Segmentation in Surgery (Syn-ISS) Room 220, Student CenterKimberly Glock, MS Empowerment Journeys: Entering, Exceling, and Exceeding Expectations in the Data Science Workforce Room 160, Student CenterWidad Machmouchi • Bernease Herman • Madison Swain-Bowden • Diala Ezzeddine • Iswarya Murali

12:05pm PDT

Data Science at an Electric Company: Building and Validating an Electric Vehicle Detection Model Room 220, Student CenterAndrea Urban, PhD MLOps for the Lonely Data Scientist Room 130, Student CenterKelley Hall

12:30pm PDT

Lunch Campion Ballroom

1:40pm PDT

Empowering Women in Career Progression: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Principal vs Manager Data Science Pathway Room 130, Student CenterKatherine Ostbye, MPH Fireside Chat Room 220, Student CenterCatherine Nelson

2:00pm PDT

Decoding Ethics: Perspectives on Responsible Data Science Campion BallroomSarita Singh • Ariana Mendible • Alicia Shen • Rujira Achawanantakun

2:10pm PDT

Finetune LLMs Room 130, Student CenterRiya Joshi Multi Class Skin Cancer Detection Using Deep Learning Techniques Room 160, Student CenterBhavana Raj Nagaraj Srinivasappa The Data Art of Good Goals Room 220, Student CenterVandana Mohan, PhD

2:40pm PDT

Overcoming challenges and pitfalls of AB testing Room 220, Student CenterKasia Rachuta Reinforcement Learning for Model Bias Analysis Room 130, Student CenterRachel Wofford • Anastasiya Usenko

3:15pm PDT

Data expansion to improve accuracy and availability of digital biomarkers for human health and performance Room 220, Student CenterMegan Ebers Revolutionizing Search: The Integration of Generative AI and the Technical Challenges Ahead Room 130, Student CenterAkriti Chadda Landscape of Data Science Across Industries Campion BallroomMonica Gerber • Sonakshi Pandey • Apurvaa Subramaniam • Rebecca Hadi • Shruti Kamath

3:50pm PDT

Is it worth it? Let me work(shop) it! Room 220, Student CenterMari Pierce-Quinonez Race and Gender Bias in Generative AI Models Room 130, Student CenterTanisha Jauhari

4:30pm PDT

Afternoon Keynote: Towards Robust and Responsible AI Campion BallroomAlessya Visnjic

5:10pm PDT

Closing Ceremony Campion BallroomKelly Stroh • Niwako Sugimura • Yashaswini Agarwal

5:30pm PDT

Happy Hour Campion Ballroom