ADVANCE Distinguished Lecture

Join us for this year's ADVANCE annual lecture, with speaker Timnit Gebru presenting her lecture, "The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning and Its Consequences."

Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) and co-founder of Black in AI, an organization dedicated to increasing the presence of Black people in the field of artificial intelligence. She received her PhD from Stanford University, and did a postdoc at Microsoft Research, New York City in the FATE (Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in AI) group, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying projects aiming to gain insights from data.

Registration is required for this event. 

The ADVANCE Annual Lecture is hosted by UMass ADVANCE in collaboration with the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences and the Office of Equity and Inclusion and is co-sponsored by the College of Engineering, College of Natural Sciences, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Computational Social Science Institute, Institute for Social Science Research, and the Office of Faculty Development.