2023

Vineeth Venugopal

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Scholar Biography I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on knowledge/data extraction from scientific literature using Natural Language Processing. I am PhD in Materials Engineering from Brown University, USA where I studied piezoelectric materials and their fabrication. I am interested in the creation of AI/ML…

Dylan Watt

Kadre Founder Biography I am a founder of Kadre.io, an analytics consulting company. We focus primarily on companies looking to be small and scrappy, often setting up their data functions for the first time. What I’ve found is that semantic layers, historically LookMl, have massive returns on being able to do more with less. If…

Ryan Wright

thatDot Founder & CEO Biography Ryan Wright is the creator of Quine, and has been leading software teams focused on data infrastructure and data science for two decades. He has served as principal engineer, director of engineering, principal investigator on DARPA-funded research programs, and is currently the founder and CEO of thatDot—the company supporting the…

Emily Wyatt

Uncharted Software Inc. Director, Global Resilience Initiatives Biography Emily Wyatt has over 18 years of experience on human trafficking and related vulnerabilities, most recent in the technology sector. Her experience working social issues across sectors has focused on strengthening public justice and health systems and leveraging technology to better serve groups at-risk for trafficking and…

Prasad Yalamanchi

Lead Semantics, Inc. CEO Biography Founder, CEO of Lead Semantics, Inc. MSCS from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Two decades of hands on experience in Symbolic, Knowledge based systems, Dynamic Programming (Lisp), Computational Linguistics, Data analytics, Distributed and Parallel systems, Compilers & Debuggers. Last 4 years had been working with Neural Language Models. Talks…

Amir Yazdavar

Optum Lead Research Engineer Biography Amir is a PhD in Computer Science. Lead research engineer and Data science enthusiast, interested in knowledge graph, Graph ML, Personalization, recommendation systems. Prior to Optum, he works for Change Healthcare, Bosch Research, Weill Cornell Medicine, National Institute of Health-NIH and Information Science Institute-USC. His research effort published at top-tier…

Gerald Berger

RelationalAI Software Engineer Biography Gerald studied computer science at TU Vienna and received his master’s degree in 2015 and his PhD in 2019. In his PhD research, he specialized in logic and the theory of computation, and he graduated with a thesis on fragments and extensions of Datalog. After graduation, he worked in software engineering…

Ningyu Zhang

Zhejiang University Associate Professor Biography Zhang Ningyu, Ph.D., associate professor at Zhejiang University, his main research interests are knowledge graph, NLP, etc. He has published papers in top international academic conferences and journals such as NeurIPS/ICLR/WWW/KDD/WSDM/AAAI/IJCAI/ACL/ENNLP/NAACL/COLING/SIGIR/TASLP/ESWA/KBS/Journal of Software/Nature Communications. Three paper has been selected as Paper Digest Most Influential Papers (WWW22、IJCAI21、KDD21). Talks and Events Efficient…

Laurel Zuckerman

Open Art Data Editor Biography Laurel Zuckerman’s work currently focuses on the art world and the Holocaust. She explores how linked open data, natural language processing, network analysis and the digital tools and techniques of investigative data journalism can be used to identify patterns in false provenances in Nazi-looted art and duress sales. Talks and…