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DSCO 2023 conference attendees can expect to learn from an invited group of cutting-edge researchers and practitioners from academia and industry addressing the latest advances across the spectrum of data science.

Plenary Speakers

  • DJ Patil

    Dr. DJ Patil was appointed by President Obama to be the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist where his efforts led to the establishment of nearly 40 Chief Data Officer roles across the Federal government.

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  • Anima Anandkumar

    Dr. Anima Anandkumar is a Bren Professor at Caltech and Senior Director of ML Research at NVIDIA. She was previously a Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services.

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  • Eric Berlow

    Dr. Eric L. Berlow is an ecologist and complexity scientist and CEO of Vibrant Data Labs - a social impact data science company.

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Panels

Session Chairs & Speakers

  • Dr. Bushra Anjum | Session Chair

    Director of Data Science & Analytics, Doximity

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  • David Aughenbaugh

    EyeTripImages.com, Digital Artist; Compositor / VR, Factory VFX

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  • Christopher Brooks

    Professor, University of San Francisco

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  • Dr. Robert Clements | Session Chair

    Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco

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  • Mark Freeman

    Founder, On the Mark Data

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  • Quinn Keck

    Data Scientist, Disney Streaming

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  • Paul Kim

    Ph.D. Student, University of California, Santa Barbara

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  • Carly Villareal

    Head of Data Science & Analytics Engineering, Nextdoor

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  • Megan Yahya

    Senior Product Manager, Google Cloud

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  • Elaine Zhou

    CTO, Change.org

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Session Chairs & Speakers

  • Hyrum Anderson | Session Chair

    Distinguished ML Engineer, Robust Intelligence

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  • Willam Bosl | Session Chair

    Professor of Health Informatics, Director of AI in Medicine Initiative, USF

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  • Karén Chaltikian

    VP of Analytics, Free Field Consulting

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  • Sanjiv Das

    Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University

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  • Steve Devlin | Session Chair

    Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, USF

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  • Matthew Dixon | Session Chair

    Associate Professor of Applied Math, Illinois Institute of Technology

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  • Carson Forter

    Manager, Data Science, Twitch (Amazon)

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  • Connor Gibbs

    Ph.D. Candidate, Statistics, Colorado State University

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  • Sherry Guo

    Data Scientist, Salesforce

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  • Steve Howard

    Data Scientist, LinkedIn

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  • Justin Jacobs

    Statistician, Squared2020, NBA

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  • Naveen Jain

    Senior Director, Data Science, Salesforce

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  • Chad Kimner

    Director, Product Marketing, Meta Reality Labs

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  • Nicholas Larsen

    Ph.D. Student, North Carolina State University

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  • April Liu

    Senior Manager, Identity Risk, AI/ML, Intuit

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  • Vincent Liu, MD, MS

    Senior Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente Research

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  • Sean McCurdy

    Head of Ads Quality & Solutions Data Science, Pinterest

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  • Erwin Quiring

    Erwin Quiring

    Postdoctoral Researcher, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley and Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

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  • Vidya Sagar Ravipati | Session Co-Chair

    Applied Science Manager, Amazon Web Services

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  • Nick Ross

    Director of the Data Science Clinic, University of Chicago

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  • Saman Sarraf

    Director, Machine Learning, Johnson & Johnson

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  • Nathaniel Stevens | Session Chair

    Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Waterloo

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  • Jake Toffler

    Analyst, New York Mets

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  • Thomas Treloar

    Professor, Hillsdale College

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  • Maura Tuohy

    Director, Privacy, Discord

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  • David Uminsky

    Executive Director, Data Science Institute, University of Chicago

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  • Sophia Wang, Stanford

    Sophia Wang

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

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  • Conrad Yiu

    Founder, CEO, Trident.ai

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  • Lo-Hua Yuan

    Senior Data Scientist, Airbnb

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  • Cindy Zhang

    Cindy Zhang

    Data Scientist, Pinterest

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  • Ruixuan Zhang

    Senior Data Scientist, Airbnb

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  • Wenjing Zheng

    Staff Data Scientist, Netflix

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  • Jennifer Zhu | Session Chair

    Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services

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  • Daniel Zielaski | Session Chair

    Vice President, Personalization & Growth, Salesforce

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Call for Abstracts

Interested in submitting an abstract and being considered for a presentation at DSCO 2023?