The second keynote SaTML Conference is now starting with Deb Raji 's talk on AI auditing!

Please read this piece by Lorena O'Neil about the serious harms of deepfake porn & listen to what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is saying as someone who has been targeted: “Kids are going to kill themselves over this...People are going to kill themselves over this.” rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… Cyber Civil Rights Initiative

Last week, McCourt's Massive Data Institute (MDI) hosted panelists Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D., Bezos Earth Fund's Amen Ra Mashariki,
U.S. Commerce Dept.'s Victoria Houed and NaLette Brodnax for a conversation on AI through the lens of equity and representation. Thank you for joining us for the thought-provoking conversation!

When I started studying security <> sex work I never imagined it would lead me here.

Following a path others think is 'career bad news' was impossible without the support of amazing sponsors / mentors who believe(d) in the work and in me.

Thank you for keeping me here.

It was an honor to have the opportunity to speak at EU-US Trade & Technology Council Technical Workshops WG5 EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Dialogue about the role of data in combating gender based violence & image based sexual abuse

Meet today’s “AI & Me” panelists!

- Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science @georgetown
- Amen Ra Mashariki, director of AI and data strategies Bezos Earth Fund
- Victoria Houed, director of AI policy and strategy U.S. Commerce Dept.

Moderated by Assistant Professor NaLette Brodnax.

'To respond to future pandemics, we need to eliminate these scattered responses, align incentives, and integrate the strengths and perspectives of public, private, and academic bodies to develop protocols, models, and best practices,' writes Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D..

medium.com/berkman-klein-…

'If we continue to build tech based on our assumptions of what users want, we risk low adoption of these technologies.' Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D. and oshrat ayalon 💔 share lessons learned from COVID-19 apps, including concerns, misunderstanding incentives, and presuming to know user needs.…

4 years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic; oshrat ayalon 💔 and I reflect on the role of privacy, accuracy, incentives & honesty in exposure notification adoption -- and what we need to do better next time when tech gets involved in pandemic response.

Getting to meet rising stars in the field over the past months has been such a treat, and I'm beyond excited to welcome Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox to Georgetown!

'Instead of focusing on how much time we spend on TikTok, maybe we need to focus on how we use it,' RSM alum Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D. writes in summary of her work on the (in)accuracy of user estimates of TikTok usage

rebootingsocialmedia.org/2024/02/23/we-…

My dissertation has won a SIGCHI outstanding dissertation award! An award that is only possible with the generous support from my PhD advisor Florian Schaub, dissertation committee, my study participants, the wonderful community School of Information, and my friends & family 🥰

Congratulations to Yixin Zou for the well-deserved recognition!

Congratulations Yixin Zou 🎉

NSF has a permanent program officer opening in HCC for folks with a PhD in a relevant field plus 6+ post-PhD years of relevant, successful research, research administration, and/or managerial experience.) usajobs.gov/job/775091000.

Thank you CIFAR , it's official.
I am happy to announce that I have been awarded a Canada CIFAR AI Chair 🥳🎉

I am very grateful to CIFAR, MilaQuebec and McGill University

it's starting to look like I may finish this phd thing after all : )

Congratulations to Collins Munyendo for passing his proposal defense with flying colors yesterday. You're ABD!

🌞 Summer internships at ThousandEyes offices in Crete! 🌞

Are you a PhD or MSc student doing research on Internet measurements?  🎓
Do you want your research to impact thousands of Cisco ThousandEyes customers worldwide? 🌍

If yes, apply now: boards.greenhouse.io/thousandeyes/j…

Potential applicants: you do **not** need publications to apply. I know this is becoming the norm, but this is **not** how my lab works. You need to enjoy research.

Proof: Many of my PhDs had no papers prior to applying and they are rocking it!

All info: lab.plopes.org