Women in Data Science (WiDS) Cambridge

WiDS 2023

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For the seventh year, MIT, Harvard, and Microsoft Research New England are proud to collaborate with Stanford University to bring the Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference to Cambridge, Massachusetts. This one-day conference will feature an all-female line up of speakers and panelists from academia and industry to talk about the latest data science-related research in a number of domains, to learn how leading-edge companies are leveraging data science for success.

Recordings of our talks and panels will be published shortly.

Plenary Speakers

Hamsa Balakrishnan

William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor Aeronautics and Astronautics
MIT

Tina Eliassi-Rad

Professor of Computer Science
Northeastern University

Laura A. Hatfield, PhD

Associate Professor of Health Care Policy (Biostatistics)
Harvard Medical School

Raji Rajagopalan

Partner Director of Software Engineering
Microsoft

Data, Climate Change, and Global Health
Panel discussion - 10:15-11:00am

Dr. Samar Deen

Data & Applied Scientist
Microsoft

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier

Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard Chan School

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Rachel Nethery

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Yanchong Karen Zheng

Associate Professor, Operations Management
MIT Sloan School of Management

Women in Entrepreneurship
Panel discussion - 2:45-3:30pm

Darshita Chaturvedi

Co-Founder & CEO
Atri Labs

Susan Conover

Co-founder and CEO
Piction Health

Arushi Jain

Applied Scientist II
Microsoft

Zara Perumal

Co-Founder and CTO
Overwatch Data

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About WiDS

WiDS Cambridge is an independent event that is organized by MIT, Harvard, and Microsoft New England as part of the annual WiDS Worldwide conference, the WiDS Datathon, and an estimated 200 WiDS Regional Events worldwide. Everyone is invited to attend all WiDS conference and WiDS Datathon Workshop events which feature outstanding women doing outstanding work.

The Women in Data Science (WiDS) initiative aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and to support women in the field. WiDS started as a one-day technical conference at Stanford in November 2015. Eight years later, WiDS is a global movement that includes a number of worldwide initiatives:

For more information, visit here.