{"id":410,"date":"2015-08-28T07:28:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T07:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kusuaks7\/?p=15"},"modified":"2024-09-23T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:14:43","slug":"women-in-data-science-10-selected-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/bigdata-cloud\/women-in-data-science-10-selected-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Data Science: 10 Selected Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThere has been some discussion<\/a> in the past about women data scientists. \u00a0Things look very bleak if you ask us. \u00a0For example, in the Experfy marketplace<\/a>,\u00a0despite our relentless attempts to recruit women data scientists, less than 5% of all providers are women. \u00a0Much of this can be attributed to the STEM gap in the labor work, a subject we recently revisited on this blog<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHowever, we want to celebrate the women who have made it. \u00a0Here are some selected profiles of women data scientists who have distinguished themselves in a field still largely dominated by men. \u00a0Please leave names of others that you may know with some references in the comments section. We will try to add your suggestions to this listlet\u0092s see how many more we can find!\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinna Cortes<\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinna Cortes received her M.S. degree in physics from Copenhagen University\u00a0in 1989. <\/strong>She first joined AT&T Bell labs in a reserach position, and served in that company for a decade. Later, she received in PhD in computer science from the University of R0chester in 1993.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShe is currently the Head of Google Research; and is known for her work in the field of machine learning. Cortes happens to be a recipient of the\u00a0Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award<\/a>\u00a0for her contributions in the field of support vector machines. She is an Editorial Board member of the journal\u00a0Machine Learning<\/a>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAt Google, she works on a broad range of machine learning problems both theoretical and applied. In 2000, she received the AT&T Science and Technology Medal for her work on data-mining in very large data sets.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHer areas of specialization are Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Algorithms and Theory, and General Science.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCorinna is also a competitive\u00a0runner, and a mother of two. She has multi-authored many Google publications<\/a>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGiannotti Fosca<\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKnown for her wide research interests including in the various facets of data mining, she has made exceptional contributions to spatio-temporal reasoning and spatio-temporal data mining. Although she has held many management and research positions, her research projects have gained international acclaim. She has served as the coordinator for various European and national research projects; she is currently the co-coordinator of the FP6-IST project GeoPKDD: Geographic Privacy-aware Knowledge Discovery and Delivery.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShe is responsible for the Working Group on Privacy and Security in Data mining of the KDUBIQ network of excellences. She has taught classes on databases and data mining at universities in Italy and abroad. Having authored close to one hundred publications, she has also served in various scientific committees related to Data Mining, Databases, and Logic Programming, In 2004, she co-chaired the European conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Data Bases.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHer published works include\n
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  1. Mobility Profilin<\/a>g<\/li>\n \t
  2. You Know Because I Know: a Multidimensional Network Approach to Human Resources Problem<\/a><\/li>\n \t
  3. On multidimensional network measures<\/a><\/li>\n \t
  4. Explaining the Product Range Effect in Purchase Data<\/a><\/li>\n \t
  5. Spatial and Temporal Evaluation of Network-based Analysis of Human Mobility<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSunita Sarawagi<\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArmed With a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian institute of technology, Kharagpur, and a PhD from the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, Sunita has served as Associate professor in IIT Bombay, and as Visiting associate professor at the Computer science department of CMU (Jan 2004 -June 2004), among others. Her PhD thesis titled Query processing in tertiary memory databases<\/strong><\/a> is available for viewing.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHer research interests span across several interdisciplinary fields including data mining, machine learning, and statistics. She is currently engaged in research on web information extraction, with special emphasis on data integration and graphical models.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou can follow her publications here: publications<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA couple of her specific projects are provided in the following section:\n