Leslie is a Professor at MIT. She has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, and was previously on the faculty at Brown University. She was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. Her goal is to make intelligent robots, although she is not, herself, a robot.

Sarah Maston is a senior solution architect at Microsoft. She works with our partner ecosystem to build global scalable IoT solutions on Azure. She specializes in process architecture and data solution architecture.

She is the founder of Project 15 from Microsoft (http://aka.ms/Project15) and the inventor of the Project Edison, a safety notification and response 3rd party solution accelerator for safe schools and workplaces, for which she won the Microsoft Polaris Award. In her 20 year career, she has architected many of the data warehouses out in the world including those at Monster.com, CouchSurfing.com, and Boston Medical Center. Prior to joining Microsoft, she won an Excellence & Eminence Award at IBM for the invention of the Nutrition Graph and an Outstanding Innovation Award for the invention of Simple Data Pipe.

Daisuke Nakahara is IoT Architect of Microsoft's Worldwide Internet of Things and Mixed Reality Sales team. In this role, Daisuke is responsible for technical engagements with partners to build IoT solutions. With 15+ years of experience as a Windows developer, Daisuke Nakahara focuses on building IoT solutions from the device point of view. His expertise includes architecting and designing IoT solutions, building devices, writing device code, interacting with cloud backend, and running workloads on edge devices. With emergence of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technology, Daisuke also focuses on implementing AI and ML in both cloud and edge devices.

Francesca Lazzeri, PhD is an experienced scientist and machine learning practitioner with over 12 years of both academic and industry experience. She is author of a number of publications, including technology journals, conferences, and books. She currently leads an international team of cloud AI advocates and developers at Microsoft, managing a large portfolio of customers in the academic/education sector and building intelligent automated solutions on the cloud. Before joining Microsoft, she was a research fellow at Harvard University in the Technology and Operations Management Unit.

Vivienne Sze is an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and leads the Research Lab of Electronics’ Energy-Efficient Multimedia Systems research group. Her group works on computing systems that enable energy-efficient machine learning, computer vision, and video compression/processing for a wide range of applications, including autonomous navigation, digital health, and the internet of things. She is widely recognized for her leading work in these areas and has received many awards, including faculty awards from Google, Facebook, and Qualcomm, the Symposium on VLSI Circuits Best Student Paper Award, the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference Outstanding Invited Paper Award, and the IEEE Micro Top Picks Award. As a member of the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding, she received the Primetime Engineering Emmy Award for the development of the High-Efficiency Video Coding video compression standard. She is a co-author of the book entitled “Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks”. More info about Prof. Sze's research can be found at http://sze.mit.edu/

As clinical research director and principal research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology (LCP), and as a practicing intensive care unit (ICU) physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Leo brings together clinicians and data scientists to support research using data routinely collected in the process of care. His group built and maintains the publicly-available Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC) database and the Philips-MIT eICU Collaborative Research Database, with more than 15,000 users from around the world. The MIMIC-III paper has been cited more than 1700 times since 2016. In addition, Leo is one of the course directors for HST.936 – global health informatics to improve quality of care, and HST.953 – collaborative data science in medicine, both at MIT. He is an editor of the textbook for each course, both released under an open access license. "Secondary Analysis of Electronic Health Records" has been downloaded more than 500,000 times, and has been translated to Mandarin, Spanish and Korean. Leo has spoken in more than 35 countries across 6 continents about the value of data and learning in health systems. His publications have been cited more than 6000 times since 2015.

Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab and directs the Camera Culture research group. His focus is on AI and Imaging for health and sustainability. They span research in physical (e.g., sensors, health-tech), digital (e.g., automated and privacy-aware machine learning) and global (e.g., geomaps, autonomous mobility) domains. He received the Lemelson Award (2016), ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award (2017), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2009), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009), TR100 Award from MIT Technology Review (2004) and Global Indus Technovator Award (2003). He has worked on special research projects at Google [X] and Facebook and co-founded/advised several companies.

Adnan is a multitalented Cloud Security Leader at Insight Enterprises. Cloud security architecture is totally different than typical, traditional security architecture with the concept of shared responsibility model. Adnan is committed to help organizations protect their digital infrastructure, which starts with protecting digital identities using AI and ML. He has delivered highly complex projects including cloud migrations for top Fortune 500 companies. He has led teams that evaluate risks, articulate issues, develop consensus, raise awareness, solve problems and improve operational efficiencies.

He is committed to educating new generation engineers, readying them with skills that are in demand today's tech industry, through his iMentor Cloud mentorship program. He speaks regularly in various technical conferences, conducts industry experts’ interviews and publishes his blog on ExchangeITpro.com. He has been Microsoft MVP for Office 365 Apps and Service from 2017-2019. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He has been on the board of Global IT Community Association and received many other award and recognition from British Computer Society, IEEE and NPA.

My name is Miri Choi. I am MIT 17’ graduate with a degree in 6-3. I was a general conference chair for the very first MIT IEEE URTC and am very happy to see that this event is continuing! I am currently working as a TPM at Amazon and running a YouTube channel, ‘Miri’s View’, to advise on the college admissions and employment in Korean (sorry not all videos are translated due to lack of human resources :’( )

Likhitha comes from a Product/Technical Program Management background. For the past year, she served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow to help build digital tools and services for the American public. Prior to that, she worked as a Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon's Alexa AI on Natural Language Understanding stack and as a Product Manager at Microsoft's Intune for Education and Visual Studio products. She graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelors in Electrical Engineering and is currently pursuing a part-time masters in Computer Science at Georgia Tech.

Simon Verghese is an engineering director at Waymo, a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. At Waymo, he is responsible for the lidar team as well as development efforts on advanced sensors and their utility in weather.

Before Waymo, he was Assistant Head of the Advanced Technology Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he looked over R&D efforts in imagers, compound semiconductors, and optoelectronics. He worked for 18 years at Lincoln Laboratory in technical and leadership roles on teams developing interplanetary laser communications, airborne laser radars, and other NASA & DoD programs.

Simon holds a BS in physics and BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University. He also holds MS and PhD degrees in physics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Noelle Wakefield joined the MIT Office of Graduate Education in January 2018 and serves as the Assistant Director of Diversity Initiatives and the MIT Summer Research Program. Noelle brings more than 5 years of Higher Education Administration where she has worked to develop and implement various diversity Initiatives including graduate recruitment, development of grant proposals to fund diversity and inclusion initiatives, and co-leading the MIT Summer Research Program.

A Chicago native, Noelle holds a B.S. in Molecular and Microbial Biology from Chicago State University and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biosciences from Northwestern University. She is passionate about exploring the experiences of graduate students of color to develop interventions that will support positive experiences and successful transition into the global workforce. https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelle-wakefield-phd-4874a0125/

Katherine is originally from Caracas, Venezuela and spent the later years of her childhood growing up in Weston, Florida. As an undergraduate in Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, Katherine became interested in the intersection of polymer physics and chemistry and pursued research in block-copolymer self-assembly with Prof. Alexander-Katz. As a Ph.D. student in the Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM), Katherine explores how functionalization of polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) influences their solid-state physical packing and, subsequently, their transport performance. Katherine also works on developing high-performing hybrid materials with functionalized metal-organic frameworks. During her Ph.D., Katherine has been recognized as an Ida. M. Green MIT Fellow, a GEM Fellow, an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and a Ford Pre-doctoral fellow. Outside of lab, Katherine is actively involved in diversity recruitment initiatives as a Graduate Community Fellow in the Office of Graduate Education. She has co-founded the LatinX Graduate Student Association at MIT and worked with the MIT undergraduate community as a Graduate Resident Advisor. As hobbies, Katherine enjoys oil painting, running, and cooking all sorts of hybrid cuisines! https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-mizrahi-rodriguez-676a869a/

Angela Reninger is an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where she develops innovative fraud and cyber analytics. Before coming to Morgan Stanley, she earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and spent more than 15 years working on network security, cloud analytics and cyber threat analysis at the National Security Agency. She has also served as a Visiting Professor in Information Assurance at the United States Naval Academy.

Claire is a Master of Engineering student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her current research interests include compilers for graph applications and performance engineering. Over her undergraduate career, Claire interned at Google Cloud, Google Photos, and Microsoft Office Docs. Most recently, Claire co-founded and served as CTO of Amplify Inc., a nonprofit connecting individuals to local organizations and initiatives to mobilize community support against the COVID-19 pandemic. Outside of tech, Claire was the co-vice president of her dorm and the Director of External Outreach for MIT Model United Nations. In her free time, Claire also enjoys basketball and playing music.

Graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University. Received Masters of Science in Engineering Management from Duke University in 2017. Previous work experience with Raytheon and Johnson & Johnson – Neutrogena, currently employed by BAE Systems as a Program Manager. While at BAE Systems, completed the Operations Leadership Development program and held previous roles as a Process Engineer, Logistics Manager, Value Stream Supervisor, Industrial Engineer, & Product Stream Manager.

Cassandra is a passionate Technical Product Management leader currently working with OpenTable as Lead for Communications. Prior to her current role, she lead product, engineering, and design for living room experiences on Amazon Prime Video globally, and has been a global Product Lead for Amazon Kindle Non-Fiction feature experiences. She started her career at Microsoft working on the Office 2010, Office 2013, Office for the iPad, and Xbox One launches and then moved to Yahoo, where she led the international coordination of 27 teams for the launch of the Yahoo Gemini Mobile and Native Ad Marketplace. She is originally from the Washington, DC area in the US and currently lives in London, England.

Dr. Aakanksha Chowdhery is a Machine Learning Engineer in Google Brain. Her research interests span across multiple areas of edge computing, machine learning, and networked systems. She completed her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She has worked at Microsoft Research and Princeton University before joining Google in 2018. She received the 2012 Paul Baran Marconi Young Scholar Award, awarded for the outstanding scientific contributions in the field of communications and the Internet.

Pramod Abichandani is a technology entrepreneur and an academic. He is the founder of LocoRobo --  a robotics company focussed on the education, toys, and defense markets. He is an Assistant Professor in the ECET/ECE/CS departments at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) where he heads the Robotics and Data Laboratory. The best part about his day is the fantastic people that he gets to work with and, of course, the robots.

Roshni is a software engineer at Waymo, Google's self-driving car company. She uses machine learning and computer vision on the Perception team to find particles in the air that the car can in fact drive through (like vehicle exhaust, fog, etc.). Before Waymo, Roshni received a PhD from Stanford, where her research applied image processing and computer vision to biological images to better understand the structure of neurons. Roshni has also worked as a hardware engineer at Cisco, implementing video processing algorithms in hardware. She has MEng and SB degrees from MIT.