In recent years, the explosive growth in artificial intelligence has led to exceptional demand for professionals in this field. Nonetheless, the unfortunate factuality remains that a very small percentage of such professionals belong to the female section of society. The reason is that they are significantly underrated. This is even though women in this field have been at the forefront playing a vital role working on AI as a driver of business value and growth. And research conducted by Alan Turing Institute suggests that more females are needed in this field to address the algorithmic gender bias that appears due to the lack of female input.
Here, we have put together our list of the top five influential women in artificial intelligence.
Dr. Fei-Fei Li
She is among the top female AI influencers who are well-respected and prominent members of this community. She is a co-director and an inaugural Professor at Stanford’s AI institute. Her main areas of research are:
- Deep learning
- Machine learning
- Cognitive and computational neuroscience
- Computer vision
- Ambient Intelligence systems for healthcare
Top achievement
- Dr. Li is the inventor of ImageNet Challenge and ImageNet, which is a vital large-scale benchmarking effort and a dataset that has contributed to the latest development of AI and deep learning.
Cassie Kozyrkov
She is a prominent woman in AI who is Google‘s lead data scientist and advocate of safe, reliable artificial intelligence. Her main focuses are:
- Data science process architecture
- Artificial intelligence
Top achievements
· Cassie has founded the practice of decision intelligence at Google, bringing managerial science, decision theory, and social science together with data science to help people understand how actions reflect outcomes.
- She was on the cover of a Forbes special issue on artificial intelligence.
- She was also named as the top voice in data analytics and data science by LinkedIn in 2019.
Dr. Lucia Specia
She is among the leading women in artificial intelligence and is a Professor at the University of Sheffield and the Imperial College London. She teaches natural language processing, and her main research areas are:
- Data-driven approaches to the processing of languages
- Multilingual context models
- Image captioning
- Text adaptation
- Quality estimation
Top achievement
- Dr. Specia is currently covering a range of NLP topics, mainly text adaptation and machine translation that will play an important part in advancing artificial intelligence-driven technology in these fields.
Allie Miller
She is a female AI influencer, a former IBM employee, and currently a US head of development for startups and venture capital for Amazon Web Services (AWS) who works for venture capitals and start-ups supporting some of the largest AI companies. Her core research areas include large-scale product creation through conversation, regulation, data, and computer vision
Top achievements
- Lucia was on Forbes, named as AI innovator of the year’ in 2019.
- She is a founder of the AI pipeline that was formed to develop more significant equity in ML.
- She is an ambassador for the 10,000-strong Advancing Women in Product’ organization.
Joy Buolamwini
She is among those successful women in artificial intelligence who started to show interest in AI while graduating. Her top research areas are:
- Improvement of AI diversity
- Addressing social consequences of AI technology
Top achievements
- Joy is described as the conscience of the artificial intelligence revolution.
- She opened the world’s eyes to the gender and racial prejudices embedded in facial recognition systems through her exceptional work on the algorithmic bias.
- She stands at the forefront of a burgeoning movement to address and identify the social consequences of AI.
