Featured Speakers
Data Journalism
Alyssa Fowers, The Washington Post
Alyssa Fowers is a graphics reporter at The Washington Post. Before becoming a journalist, she worked in data management and analysis for businesses and nonprofits.
Ethics and Fairness in Statistics and Data Science: A Panel Discussion
Caitlin Wylie, University of Virginia
Caitlin Wylie studies underrecognized work and workers in research communities. This includes technicians whose names and work are missing from publications, students who contribute broad knowledge and learning opportunities to research groups, and community members whose expertise about their homes enriches environmental research. She uses qualitative social research methods, including interviews and participant observation.
Elham Tabassi, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Elham Tabassi is a senior research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and associate director for emerging technologies in the Information Technology Laboratory. She also leads the institute’s Trustworthy and Responsible AI Program, which aims to cultivate trust in the design, development, and use of artificial intelligence technologies.
As associate director for emerging technologies, Elham assists the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s leadership and management determine strategic direction for research, development, standards, testing, and evaluation of emerging technologies. She also coordinates interaction related to artificial intelligence with the US research community, US industrial community, international standards community, and federal agencies, as well as provides leadership within the institute.
Matthew D. Rotelli, Eli Lilly and Company
Matthew Rotelli is vice president for the bioethics program at Eli Lilly and Company, where he leads the company’s evaluation of bioethical considerations across the continuum of its research, development, and commercialization activities. He has led diverse disciplines to bring medicine to patients in oncology, immunology, cardiovascular, endocrine, and neuroscience indications and is passionate about making the drug development process more reliable, efficient, and trustworthy.
Throughout his career, Rotelli has performed or directed statistical and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic work in all phases of clinical development, including commercialization, pharmacovigilance, and real-world evidence generation. He is a graduate of the Lilly Bioethics Leadership Academy and member of the American Statistical Association, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research. He has also served on or been a member of many committees and working groups focused on pharmacometrics, clinical trials, and ethics.
Research Horizons for AI and CISE
Dilma Da Silva, Texas A&M University
Dilma Da Silva is a systems software researcher with primary research interests in operating systems, distributed computing, and computer science education. She is working on research projects focusing on streaming computing, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and autonomous vehicles and is passionate about broadening participation in computing.
Da Silva is a professor and holder of the Ford Motor Company Design Professorship II of the department of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M University and interim director of the Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center.
