30+ women experts on the topic of synthetic data
Recently, I stumbled across the promotion of an interesting talk organized by the Amsterdam FinTech week: “synthetic data, real opportunities.” Much to my disappointment, out of a 9-people panel, there wasn’t a single woman in the panel.
Synthetic data and privacy as research fields owe a lot to the work of pioneer women. For example, the research of Dr. Latanya Sweeney on re-identification has been critical, much as the research from Cynthia Dwork on differential privacy.
Today, synthetic data is no longer confined to the academics field, as proved by the 50+ tech companies actively developing solutions and services. In a sector struggling with recruiting women, better gender representation at public events and in the media is a step toward supporting a more diverse industry.
So here is a list of 20 female experts on the topic of synthetic data for your next interview, conference, or podcast.
Edit 11.2021*: Now 30+ experts in the list!
30+ women experts on the topic of synthetic data
- Alexandra Ebert, Chief Trust Officer at Mostly AI
Alexandra is a privacy and GDPR expert with a background in software and engineering, and business and marketing. She has industry expertise in synthetic structured data, GDPR, AI, and privacy. Contact her
- Amy Steier, Principal Machine Learning Scientist at Gretel
Amy is a principal machine learning scientist with more than twenty years in the field. She has industry and technical expertise in machine learning, AI, cybersecurity and preserving both utility and privacy in structured synthetic data. Contact her
- Aurélia Nègre, Lead Deep Learning Scientist at Preligens
Aurélia is a senior data scientist with a background in economics and statistics. She has technical expertise in synthetic structured data and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Contact her
- Beatrice Milik, Business Development Representative at Statice
Beatrice is a sales engineer to-be with a background in biomedical engineering. She has industry and technical expertise in synthetic structured data. Contact her
- Borbála Tasnádi, Data Scientist at Statice
Borbála is a data scientist with a background in mathematics studies. She has technical expertise in synthetic structured data, synthesization methods as well as utility and privacy evaluation of synthetic data. Contact her
- Chaoyi (Mina) Zheng, Data Science Manager
Mina is a data scientist with a background in biomedical sciences and biostatistics. She has academic and technical expertise in synthetic healthcare data, statistics, and machine learning. Contact her
- Chiara Beth Colombi, Wordsmith at Tonic.ai
Chiara is a communications expert with a background in content creation and technical translation. She has editorial and industry expertise in data synthesis, data privacy, and product marketing. Contact her
- Dr. Claire McKay Bowen, Lead Data Scientist, Privacy and Data Security at Urban Institute
Claire is a data scientist with a background in computational statistics. She has academic and technical expertise in synthetic data generation, differential privacy, and statistical disclosure control methodology. Contact her
- Daniela Palcu, Computer Vision Engineer at Neurolabs
Daniela is a machine learning engineer with a background in computer science and artificial intelligence. She has technical expertise in synthetic data generation for computer vision and object detection. Contact her.
- Elena Ponte, CEO and co-founder of Zumo Labs
Elena is a synthetic data expert with a background in international law and intellectual property. She has academic, legal, and business expertise on synthetic unstructured data and privacy protection. Contact her
- Elodie Zanella, Data Science Product Director at Sarus
Elodie is a data science product expert with a background in statistics, machine learning, and big data. She has technical expertise in synthetic structured data, privacy-preserving analytics, and AI tools. Contact her
- Emily Ritter, Software Engineer at Tonic.ai
Emily is a software engineer with a background in Computer Science. She has technical expertise in structured and semi-structured synthetic data generation, test data, and database integration. Contact her
- Emna Amor, Machine Learning Engineer at Statice
Emna is a machine learning engineer with a background in computer science. She has technical expertise in synthetic structured data for privacy protection, machine learning, and model performances. Contact her
- Fabiana Clemente, Founder and Chief Data Officer at YData
Fabiana is a data scientist and entrepreneur with a background in applied maths and data science. She has technical and industry expertise in synthetic structured data, deep learning techniques, and data privacy protection. Contact her
Franziska is a researcher and PhD candidate with a background in computer science, privacy, and data science. She has research and technical expertise in data protection, and private + secure machine learning development, with a special focus in their application for health data. Contact her
- Dr. Giulia Fanti, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University and member of CyLab Security & Privacy Institute
Giulia is a privacy expert and professor with a background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. She has technical and academic expertise on privacy-preserving technologies, synthetic data generation and deep generative models in particular Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Contact her
- Inken Hagestedt, Privacy Expert at Apheris
Inken is a data scientist and privacy expert. She has technical expertise on privacy technologies such as synthetic data. Additionally, she was researching at the CISPA Saarland and organizing a community of scientists and researchers around privacy-aware eye tracking using differential privacy. Contact her.
- Jeanette Knipp, Junior Associate Strategy & Conception at idalab
Jeanette is a design strategist with a background in digital and physical product design. She has design and industry expertise in synthetic healthcare data, AI, and health data sciences. Contact her
- Kasey Alderete, Product Manager at Tonic.ai
Kasey is a product expert with a professional and academic background in business and engineering. She has design and industry expertise in synthetic data, enterprise technology, and product management. Contact her
- Lipika Ramaswamy, Sr. Applied Scientist at Gretel Labs
Lipika is an applied scientist with a background in mathematics and privacy enhancing technologies. She has expertise in implementing and interpreting differential privacy systems and synthetic data with privacy guarantees. Contact her
- Lucie Arntz, Operations Manager & Head of Legal at Apheris
Lucie is a fully qualified lawyer with extensive business and legal expertise in privacy-enhancing technologies, data protection and AI regulation. She empowers companies to adopt AI while minimizing its risk, providing advice in strategic and technical areas, including regulatory and compliance, synthetic data and all questions around intellectual property rights related to AI. Contact her
- Lucy Mosquera, Director of Data Science at Replica Analytics
Lucy is a data scientist expert with a background in biostatistics and mathematical biology. She has technical and academic expertise in structured synthetic data for healthcare, data analysis, and multi-party computing. Contact her
- Lulu Tan, Machine Learning Engineer at Unity
Lulu is a machine learning engineer and data scientist with a background in engineering. She has technical expertise in synthetic structured data, data privacy, and machine learning models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Contact her
- Dr. Lydia Y. Chen, Co-Founder at Generatrix
Lydia is a research expert and entrepreneur with a background in Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, and Operation Research. She has technical and academic expertise in synthetic tabular data generation, deep learning models such as Generative Adversarial Networks, and privacy-preserving technology. Contact her
- Manuela Mackert, Chief Compliance Officer at Deutsche Telekom AG
Manuela is a compliance and AI expert with a background in law. She has legal and compliance expertise in digital ethic and AI, and data compliance. Contact her.
- Marta Batlle López, Data Scientist at Roche
Marta is a data scientist with a background in Neuroscience and Health Data Science. She has technical expertise in health synthetic data generation, particularly in the applications of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in healthcare. She also has expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Contact her
- Nari Park, Big Data Analyst, at AI Big Data Research Center
Nari is a big data analyst with a background in actuarial science. She has technical expertise in synthetic data generation, text mining, and analysis. Contact her
- Noa Zamstein, Senior Data Scientist at MDClone
Noa is a data scientist with a background in computational chemistry. She has academic and technical expertise in synthetic healthcare data and statistical utility preservation. Contact her
- Patricia Thaine, CEO and Co-founder of Private AI
Patricia is a data privacy expert with a background in computer science, linguistics, and literature. She has technical and industry expertise in synthetic data, AI, and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs). Contact her
- Sandra Carrasco, Research Scientist at AI Sweden
Sandra is a research scientist at AI Sweden and a Ph.D. Student in Deep Learning. At AI Sweden, she conducts a research project on generating synthetic training images to improve the performance of disease diagnosis models. She has expertise in generative modelling (VAEs, GANs), Graph Neural Networks, Federated Learning and AI explainability. Contact her
- Shaarvani Kavula, Data Science Engineer
Shaarvani is a data scientist expert with a background in data science and business analytics. She has technical expertise in synthetic data generation for fraud detection and explainable AI. Contact her
- Sylwia Majchrowska, Research Scientist at AI Sweden
Sylwia is a research scientist at AI Sweden and a Ph.D. student in Physics at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. At AI Sweden, she conducts a research project on generating synthetic training images to improve the performance of disease diagnosis models. She has academic expertise in nonlinear fiber optics, and industrial expertise in tabular/image synthetic data generation (GANs), Federated Learning, and Object Detection deep learning techniques. Contact her
- Ruth Hashkes, Data Scientist at MDClone
Ruth is a data scientist and researcher with a background in medicine sciences and biology. She has technical and academic expertise in synthetic healthcare data and privacy. Contact her
- Theresa Stadler, PhD Research Assistant at EPFL IC
Theresa is PhD Research Assistant with a background in Biophysics and Biomathematics. She has technical and academic expertise on privacy-preserving data processing systems and technologies, and privacy mechanisms for synthetic data generation. Contact her
- Dr. Victoria de Sainte Agathe, Data Scientist R&D at Sarus.
Victoria is a data scientist with a background in fundamental physics and astrophysics. She has technical and academic expertise in synthetic structured data, differential privacy, and privacy-preserving mechanisms. Contact her
Hopefully, a little awareness can help fast-track women’s participation in public speaking events and encourage organizers and media to build more diverse panels.
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