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Invited Talks

2023

  • World Cities Day: CIFAR talks on Future Cities, Invited Speaker, October 31, 2023

  • Tripods Workshop, Invited Speaker, October 19, 2023, Santa Cruz, USA

  • Scale AI: ALL IN 2023, Invited Speaker and Panelist, September 28, 2023, Montreal, Canada

  • Soup and Science at McGill university, Invited speaker, September 26, 2023, Montreal, Canada

  • McGill University, Invited Lecturer, September 12, 2023, Montreal, Canada

  • McGill: Lightening talk, Invited Speaker, September 8, 2023, Montreal, Canada

  • Facebook (Meta): Women in AI talk, Invited Speaker, August 30, 2023

  • Anticipating AI’s Major Risks for Society organized by Mila, IVADO and OBVIA, Panelist, August 14, 2023, Montreal, Canada

  • TedXMontreal, Invited Speaker, July 20, 2023, Montreal, Canada

  • CIFAR Deep Learning + Reinforcement Learning (DLRL) Summer School, Invited Speaker, July 18, 2023, Montreal, Canada

  • The Walrus Talks Artificial Intelligence, Invited Speaker, 28 June 2023, Toronto, Canada

  • Mozilla Responsible AI Challenge, Invited workshop organizer, 31 May 2023, San Francisco, USA

  • Mila Partners symposium, Invited workshop organizer, 31 May 2023

  • NextAI, Invited Speaker, 9 May 2023, Montreal, Canada

  • Planetary Politics Initiative at New America, Invited Participates of the AI working group for Mapping Our Global Digital Future: A Symposium on Examining Digital Harms & Pathways to Tech Governance, May 2-3, Washington DC, USA

  • World Summit AI Americas, Invited Speaker, April 25, 2023, Montreal, Canada

  • Concordia University, Invited Speaker, 28 March 2023, Montreal, Canada

  • University of Washington Tacoma, Invited Speaker, 23 February 2023, Tacoma, USA

2022

  • McGill University, Invited Lecturer, November 15, 2023

  • 4th Urban Economy Forum, Panelist, October 4, 2022

  • Google, AI for Good or Good AI, Invited Speaker, July 26, 2022

  • Mila-Microsoft Research workshop, AI for Good or Good AI, Invited Speaker, October 4, 2022

  • Artificial intelligence, the brain and society Workshop, AI for Good or Good AI, Invited Speaker, Paris, France, April 20, 2022

2021

  • 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) panel on Responsible AI Systems and Experiences panelist, 19 August 2021

  • ICML 2021 Workshop on Representation Learning for Finance and e-Commerce Applications, invited speaker, 21 July 2021

  • SICSS-Montreal, invited speaker, June 14, 2021

  • 6th edition of MILA/IVADO summer school on Deep Learning, Contextualizing ethics in AI, invited speaker, 27 April 2021

  • Keynote speaker at Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2021), Mitigating Algorithmic Discrimination in Machine Learning, 26 April 2021

  • TechAide 2021 conference, 23 April 2021, invited speaker

  • KCJ panel on AI ethics, panelist, 21 April 2021

  • AICan Panel: Canada’s Leadership in Responsible AI Policy, 19 January, 2021, Panelist

2020

  • Gender gap in Data science, HEC Montreal, Montreal, Canada, 18 September, 2020, Panelist

  • Picture a Scientist, MILA, 3 September, 2020, Panelist

  • Plenary talk at NAFIPS2020, Seattle, USA, 21 August, 2020, Bias and Discrimination in machine learning

  • ICESCO Webinar on Artificial Intelligence and Education, 18 June, 2020, Panelist

  • NextAI, Montreal, Canada, 17 June, 2020, Bias and Discrimination in machine learning

2019

  • The 5th edition of MILA/IVADO summer school on Deep Learning, Vancouver, Canada, December 6, 2019, Bias and Discrimination in AI, more info

  • WiMLDS meetup, Montreal, Canada, November 14, 2019, Deep Individual Fairness Verification

  • Trustworthy AI Symposium at Columbia University, New York, US, October 30, 2019,Learning Fair Naive Bayes Classifiers by Discovering and Eliminating Discrimination Patterns, more info

  • Microsoft Research’s AI Breakthroughs workshop, Redmond, US, September 16, 2019, Fairness through Constrained Optimization, more info

  • MILA/IVADO summer school on Deep Learning, Montreal, Canada, September 13, 2019, Bias and Discrimination in AI, more info

  • Montreal AI Symposium 2019 (MAIS) September 6, Montreal, Canada, Verifying Individual Fairness in Neural Networks, more info

  • IVADO/MILA summer school on bias and discrimination in AI, Montreal, Canada, 4 June, 2019, Fairness Definitions, Info

  • Optimization Days, Montreal, Canada, 14 May, 2019, Fairness-aware Influence Maximization

2018

  • UAI Tutorial, Monterey, USA, 6 August, 2018, Collective classification and Link Prediction with Probabilistic Soft Logic

  • University of Washington, Tacoma, USA, March 28, 2018, Computational Social Science: Opportunities and Challenges

2016

  • Microsoft Research Asia, China, November 16, 2016, Social Media Users Modeling towards Personalized Advertisement

  • Tsinghua University, China, November 9, 2016, Social Media Users Modeling towards Personalized Advertisement

  • KenSci, USA, September 8, 2016, User Modeling in Social Media

  • LICT workshop, Belgium, May 26, 2016, Modeling Social Media Users towards Personalized Advertisement, Info

  • PARIS workshop, Belgium, May 10, 2016, Why advertisers should know your age, gender and personality?, Info

  • University of Washington, Tacoma, USA, March 9, 2016, Social Media Users Modeling towards Personalized Advertisement, Info

2014

  • Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium, September 22, 2014 , Mining of Social Media

  • University of Washington, Tacoma, USA, January 22, 2014, Inferring Missing User Attributes from User Generated Content, Info