At this year's conference we are excited to feature roundtable lunch discussions. These roundtables feature a discussion over lunch among small groups of eight people led by women industry leaders and researchers in the field from organizations like IBM, Capital One, Metis Machine, S&P Global, NVIDIA, UVA and more.
Lunch will be from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m., during the 2019 Women in Data Science Charlottesville Conference, in the Abbott Center Dining Room. For more information and to plan your day, see the conference agenda.
2019 Roundtable Lunch Discussion Leaders
- Rama Akkiraju, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Watson
- Julia Barnhart, Manager, Data Analytics, United Network for Organ Sharing
- Rebecca Bilbro, Head of Data Science, ICX Media
- Erin Braswell, Data Engineer, Thorn
- Meredith Broussard, Author, "Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
- Manasa Bulusu, Data Scientist, S&P Global Market Intelligence
- Kelsey Campbell, Founder, Gayta Science
- May Casterline, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
- Miriam Friedel, Director of Data Science, Metis Machine
- Erfaneh Gharavi, Research Assistant, UVA School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Liying Gong, Data Scientist, Capital One
- Jennifer Hill, Ph.D., VP of Data Science, Capital One
- Rachel House, Data Scientist, S&P Global
- Cho Jiang, 2018-2019 Presidential Fellow in Data Science, University of Virginia Data Science Institute; Ph.D. Candidate, UVA School of Architecture Department of Urban and Environmental Planning
- Gizem Korkmaz, Research Associate Professor, Biocomplexity Institute & Initiative, University of Virginia
- Eva Lancaster, Ph.D. Candidate, Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Kathleen MacManus, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia
- Tatenda Ndambakuwa, Founder, Shiri AgTech
- Kim Scott, Co-founder and VP of Data Science, Astraea
- Stephanie Shipp, Deputy Director and Professor of Research, Social and Decision Analytics Division, Biocomplexity Institute & Initiative, University of Virginia
- Narges Tabari, Research Scientist, UVA Data Science Institute
- Valentina Subow, Data & Analytics Consultant, Excella
- Samantha Toet, Founder, R-Ladies Charlottesville
- Elizabeth Ward, Assistant Professor of Statistics, James Madison University