Z-INSPECTION - Key Persons
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- Founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute
Adarsh Srivastava brings 12 years of data centric QA experience revolving around various industry domains including Healthcare Domain. Currently working with Roche diagnostics in data analytics and data science R&D division.
Always focussed on the business perspective of data lakes, he has seen the evolution of data with it becoming the bedrock of Artificial Intelligence systems and Machine learning models.
Adarsh is a voracious sci-fi reader and day-dreams about the rise of spiritual & intelligent machines.
Ahmed Khalil, clinician scientist, is a radiology resident and stroke imaging researcher at the Charité's Center for Stroke Research Berlin. His research involves developing and validating new and emerging brain imaging techniques.
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- Artificial Intelligence and Operations Innovation Manager OPS - OS
Alessio Gallucci is currently pursuing his PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
He obtained his Bachelor and Master in Applied Mathematics at Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
His current research aims at parametrizing and analyzing the skin ranging from whole-body surface to local skin patches. His interests include deep learning, digital image processing and 3D registration.
Alessio was awarded a Z-inspection® Teaching Certificate.
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- Researcher in His First Year at CNR
Andrea Beretta is a PostDoc researcher in his first year at CNR. He is currently working on XAI European Project and his role concerns both research and project management activities. His background is in Social Psychology with a special interest in HCI. Andrea has worked with user studies since his master thesis in 2012.
He earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science at the University of Trento with the thesis "Impact of Counterfactual Emotions on the Experience of Algorithm Aversion". In his research, Andrea is an expert in designing interviews, surveys, and experiments to study human behavior during the interaction with algorithms and AI applications in the particular case in which these intelligent systems support human decision-making. His research focus is on user studies for Explainable Machine Learning techniques and their applications in different fields.
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- Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation
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- Dean of Faculty Campus Frysl N, University of Groningen
- Professor
For the past 35 years Andy has been discovering, developing and commercializing medicines globally, and his journey to OoNiDa has been as a global citizen, living and working in four countries, always seeking ways to avoid preventable burden of disease in society whilst making sure access to medicines is an equitable right for all.
In 2012 he founded the Chronic Disease Foundation initiative in South Africa, to empower Community Health workers in Kwazulu Natal using mobile technologies. Here he saw the real burden of diseases like diabetes when they are left to develop without effective digital health surveillance systems. Inspired to change this he began work with the WHO Be Healthy Be Mobile initiative, contributed to the WISH policy maker guidance on diabetes in 2013, did an Executive MBA at INSEAD in 2017 and co-founded OoNiDa in 2018 to build an association that could foment the changes needed in global health systems.
He was a contributor to the Broadband Commission white paper on realising the potential of Digital systems in 2019, and was part of a high-level delegation to the government of Chile in late 2019 to discuss ways to better transform the health system. He co-founded OoNiDa in 2018.
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- Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Aniek F. Markus is currently pursuing her PhD in the Health Data Science group at the Erasmus University Medical Center, the Netherlands (https://www.healthdatascience.nl/).
She obtained her Bachelor and Master in Econometrics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. During her masters, she worked as a research assistant at the Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, where she investigated ethnic inequalities in deceased donor kidney allocation and the productivity of Dutch hospitals. Her current research focuses at creating more explainable artificial intelligence for patient-level prediction.
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- Head of Division Pharmacy and Medicines at Luxembourg Health Directorate
Annette F. Stephansen is Research Director of the group Digital Systems in NORCE - one of Norway's largest independent and research institutes. She has a PhD in applied mathematics from the Ecole des Ponts, ParisTech, which comes with a research interest in the development of numerical methods and their error estimates. The ever expanding uses of algorithms and AI means that to examine and highlight the hypotheses and the data underpinning the methods are ever more important.
She has participated in several debates on AI and the ethical impacts of AI, and is a board member of NORA - the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium as well as NORA start-up. Her interest in cross-disciplinary research and technology has also led her to be a scientific board member of the center for e-health at the University of Agder, as well as a board member of the research centers SFI Smart Ocean and SFI CRIMAC.
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- Research and Teaching Assistant at the Fourah Bay College, Mechanical and Maintenance
Assiatu A. Jalloh is Research and Teaching Assistant at the Fourah Bay College, Mechanical and Maintenance Engineering, University of Sierra Leone. Her main interests are in Data Analytics. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering with Honors and a Master of Philosophy in Energy Studies. She is leading a non-profit organization which is geared towards women empowerment through energy access, environment protection and education.
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- Chairman of AI Standards at Standards Australia
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- Member of the European Parliament / Member Special Committee
Axel Voss
Member of the European Parliament
Member Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age
Brussels, Belgium
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- Associate Professor in ICT
Bee Theng is associate professor in ICT and the Director School of Research, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus. Sarawak, Malaysia
Her research interests are:
Artificial intelligence in activity recognition, natural scene text recognition, speech emotion detection, road accidents recognition, wafer surface defect detection, financial risks recognition, aesthetic preference of design objects etc.
Smart/creative technologies for people with visual impairment, autism, cerebral palsy, intellectually giftedness, paediatric cancer
Alternative learning methods in education, STEM and AI education
Rural informatics for bridging the digital divide
Impact study of digital devices
She has been actively contributing to her research areas with various edited books, peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings, higher degrees in research, and funded research projects. She is a currently a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE; senior member of Association of Computing Machinery, ACM; Professional Technologist of Malaysia Board of Technologist, Certified Tester of International Software Testing Qualifications Board. She has also actively serving in IEEE committees and projects.
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- Co - Manager of the Brussels AI Institute for Common Good
Carl Mörch is co-manager of the Brussels AI Institute for Common Good (ULB-VUB). He was in 2020-2021 a postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal and Mila - Québec artificial Intelligence Institute. He was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies (OBVIA) in 2020. He is also a lecturer and adjunct professor at UQÀM (Montréal, Canada).
His work is oriented towards the concrete application of high-level ethical principles in applied domains. In general, he is interested in the responsible development of technologies in society, health care and psychology. He recently published the Canada Protocol, an ethical checklist for AI developers working on Mental Health.
Dr. Charles Binkley is an experienced cancer surgeon, bioethicist, and physician leader. Dr. Binkley attended Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his surgery training at the University of Michigan where he was awarded an NIH fellowship in pancreatic cancer research.
Prior to joining Hackensack Meridian Health, Dr. Binkley directed the bioethics program at Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics where he teaches a year long health care ethics course. He is an experienced liver and pancreas cancer surgeon and directed the clinical ethics consultation service at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco, California. His work is focused on AI clinical decision support systems, particularly the need to inform patients, shared machine-physician agency, and assigning moral responsibility for AI guided clinical decisions.
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- Vice President, Global Head of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, TietoEVRY, Sweden / Executive Director, Nordic Artificial Intelligence Institute, Sweden
Christoffer Bjerre Haase is a medical doctor and Joint Ph.D. student between University of Copenhagen and Deakin University, Melbourne.
Christoffer analyses how data-intensive technologies are reconfiguring the diagnostic processes in contemporary healthcare. The analyses are based on documents and interviews in relation to philosophy of science and the principles of evidence-based medicine.
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- Arcada University of Applied Sciences As Degree Program Director
Christoffer Ericsson works at Arcada University of Applied Sciences as Degree Program Director for the Emergency Care Programme and as Director of Arcada Patient Safety and Learning Center.
Christoffer is an experienced paramedic and awarded educator, voted Arcada Teacher of The Year twice by students. Holding two masters degrees, in Emergency Care and Applied Psychology, Christoffer's primary interests is in making emergency care and acute healthcare work more managable for providers through, by combining psychological frameworks and simulation-based learning.
As a doctoral student at University of Helsinki, Christoffer's research is exploring Nordic paramedic professionals' resilience and exploring factors contributing to occupational wellbeing in frontline acute care personnel.
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- SVP of Strategic Data Science, TwoSigma, USA / Professor Gerd Gigerenzer
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- President
- VP Trust and Digital Ethics, Inrupt, San Francisco, USA
Davi Ottenheimer is President of flyingpenguin and helps lead security on Inrupt's Solid mission to "course-correct the Web". He has more than twenty-five years' experience managing global security engineering, operations and assessments, and over a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. Davi is co-author of the book "Securing the Virtual Environment: How to Defend the Enterprise Against Attack," published in May 2012 by Wiley. His next book is about the Realities of Securing Big Data.
Davi received his postgraduate academic Master of Science (MSc) degree in International History from the London School of Economics.
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- Student at the Frankfurt Big Data Lab at Goethe University Frankfurt
Dennis Vetter is a PhD student at the Frankfurt Big Data Lab at Goethe University Frankfurt.
He previously worked as a Machine Learning Engineer in the Netherlands and has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science.
His research is focused on the application of AI systems: how can we trust them to make fair and ethical decisions?
Dennis was awarded a Z-inspection® Teaching Certificate.
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- Co - Founder, Kinaara Foundation, USA & India
With Z-Inspection® we want to help to establish what we call a Mindful Use of AI (#MUAI).
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- Co - Director, Digital Platforms & Democracy Project
Divya Dwivedi is a Social Entrepreneur, Activist, and experienced Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry and equipped with degrees of B. Tech and MBA and currently practicing Law @SCI. She is skilled in Research and Development (R&D), Legal Research, Leadership, and Public Speaking. Divya is a strong program and project management professional with an LLB - Bachelor of Laws focused in Corporate Law, Tax Law/Taxation, and Intellectual Property Law from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Divya is passionate about working for society by building up an environment of Trust for a little over 13 years now through which she tries to make people aware about everything around them be it atmosphere, health, law, or any other aspect of life.
Eleanore is currently Lecturer in Law, at University of Bristol Law School.
Previously she was a research associate and teaching fellow at the University of Cambridge. She is also a teaching fellow at University College London.
Her research and teaching interests include corporate governance, financial regulation and corporate law. She holds a PhD in Law, a Masters in Corporate Law and is a solicitor for England and Wales (non-practising).
Eleanore's publications include research on the application of the EU's Guidelines for Trustworthy AI in a corporate governance context, which can be found here. She is a Modern Law Review Early Career Fellow.
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- Commissioner for Standards Northern Ireland Assembly
Since moving to Northern Ireland in 1994, Melissa completed her PhD Biomedical Sciences, LLB, MSc Bioethics and mediation certification, and has worked as an academic in law, ethics and professionalism in medical schools in the UK and Ireland since 2005. Melissa served as a ministerial appointed Non-Executive Director for the Health and Social Care Board in Northern Ireland from 2009-2020 and is currently a visiting academic at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, an assessor and chair for undergraduate medical programs for the Medical Council Ireland and also acts as a law and ethics specialist on the Clinical Governance Board at Synergix Health, London.
Melissa's published work and research interests include professionalism, organisational ethics, applied ethics, ethical use of AI, equality and justice in policy and practice, diversity & inclusion, and public health ethics. Melissa is also a regular contributer on topical ethical and legal issues for BBC.
Dr Subrata Chakraborty is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information, Systems and Modelling within the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia.
He received his PhD in Decision Support Systems from Monash University, Australia. Previously Dr Chakraborty worked as an academic with University of Southern Queensland, Charles Sturt University, Queensland University of Technology, and Monash University. Dr Chakraborty current research interests include Optimisation Models, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Image Processing with decision support applications in diverse domains including Business, Agriculture, Transport, Health, and Education.
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- Cardiologist
- Department of Cardiology, 4th Gliwice Municipal Hospital, Gliwice, Poland.
- Member of Polish Society of Cardiology
Adam Golda is a Cardiologist working in the Department of Cardiology, 4th Gliwice Municipal Hospital, Gliwice, Poland. Dr Golda obtained his medical degree from the Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, as well as his PhD degree with summa cum lauda in molecular cardiology and gene therapy from Westphalia Wilhelm University, Münster, Germany. For his PhD thesis he was granted an annual prize from the University Heart Centre in Münster for the best cardiovascular dissertation in 2007.
Dr Golda completed his residency in internal medicine at the Clinical Department of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Diseases and Electrotherapy, Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland, as well as his fellowship in cardiology at the Department of Cardiology, Gliwice Medical Centre, Gliwice, Poland. His areas of expertise in cardiology are echocardiography, coronary artery disease, heart failure and invasive cardiology.
Dr Golda is a member of Polish Society of Cardiology. In 2012, he obtained the Annual Prize and Research Grant from the Polish Society of Cardiology to study the effect of arylsulphatase B deficiency on function of endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells.
Dr Golda's research interests lie in cardiological aspects of rare diseases, blood flow modelling in human arteries and lastly in AI. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications with Hirsch Index 12.
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- Global Head of Operations / Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development
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- Executive Director, LF AI Foundation, USA
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- Director Bioethics & Digital Ethics / Corporate Affairs / Merck KGaA / Darmstadt, Germany
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- Managing Director Lernende Systeme - Germany 's AI Platform / National Academy of Science and Engineering
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- Senior Lecturer
- Department of Healthcare at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland
Dr. Jonas Tana is a senior lecturer at the Department of Healthcare at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland.
Jonas has a background in pre-hospital emergency care as well as in history, and earned his doctoral degree in information science from Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Jonas research interests and publications are concentrated around infodemiology, pre-clinical online health behaviours and eHealth.
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- Researcher at the Health Ethics
Dr. Julia Amann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Health Ethics and Policy Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). Her research interests span a broad range of topics at the intersection of digital health technologies, bioethics, and health communication. In her current work, Julia investigates the opportunities and challenges of medical AI, focusing on the ethical implications for research and clinical practice.
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- Director of the Frankfurt Big Data Lab at the Goethe - University Frankfurt
Karsten Tolle is senior researcher, lecturer and director of the Frankfurt Big Data Lab at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (Germany). He is computer scientist and an expert in the field of Databases and Linked Open Data. Since over a decade he works in interdisciplinary projects and is applying machine-learning techniques including NLP and Deep Learning.
Karsten was awarded a Z-inspection® Teaching Certificate.
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- Global Chief Analytics Officer / ING, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Dr. Magnus Westerlund (DSc) is a Principal Lecturer in Information Technology and Director of the Laboratory for Trustworthy AI at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland. He is also an associate Professor at Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway. He has an industry background from telecom and information management and earned his doctoral degree in Information Systems at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Magnus has research publications in the fields of trustworthy AI, analytics, IT-security, cyber regulation, and distributed software.
His current research topics are found in the development of trustworthy software, assessment of AI systems, and smart contract-based distributed security for IoT edge applications. He actively participates as a core member and technical expert in the Z-inspection® initiative and works for a Mindful Use of AI.
Magnus was awarded a Z-inspection® Teaching Certificate.
Ulrich Kühne graduated in Medicine from Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt. MD thesis about autoimmune thyroid disease. Dermatology and Allergology training at Frankfurt University Hospital. Postgraduate Degree in Aesthetic Laser Medicine from University of Greifswald.
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- Scientist
- Learning Engineer
Michelle Livne is a machine learning engineer and applied scientist. Since 2020 she works as a machine learning research engineer at Google Health.
Previously, following her background in medical imaging and machine learning, she lead the machine learning academic team at the Charité Lab for AI in Medicine. In parallel she co-founded and served as the CTO of AI4medicine, working on machine learning solutions for stroke diagnostics and prevention.
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- Assistant Professor at the Department of Governance and Innovation
Dr. Oskar Josef Gstrein is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Governance and Innovation of Campus Frysl n, where he is also member of the Data Research Centre. He studied law (Magister iuris) and Philosophy (Magister philosophiae) in Innsbruck (Austria), and holds an LL.M. degree in European Integration of the Europa-Institut of the University of Saarland (Germany). His PhD thesis in the field of European and international data protection law on the concept of a ‘Right to be forgotten' was awarded with the grade ‘summa cum laude' (published Nomos 2016).
His overall research theme is ‘Human Dignity in the Digital Age' and his publications cover aspects of Internet Governance, the governance of emerging technologies (including ‘AI'), privacy, security, and digital identity.
In the past, Oskar has collaborated with the inaugural United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy. He is external lecturer at the Europa-Institut of the University of Saarland, Research Fellow at the Institute of Technology and Society in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Research Associate at the Israel Public Policy Institute, member of the Europol network for data protection experts (EDEN) and board member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Science Network in the Netherlands.
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- Executive Director and Lecturer in Law Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology / Co - Founder and Executive Director CodeX - the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, USA
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- Research Scientist at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Dr. Sema Candemir is a Research Scientist at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Department of Radiology. She has been focusing on medical image and video analysis; specifically region of interest detection, local image descriptors, and integration of imaging modalities with non-imaging clinical data. In 2013-2018, she was a research scientist and postdoctoral researcher at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. In 2011-2012, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
She has received several awards, including the Best Paper Award in the 30 th IEEE CBMS in 2017, the NLM Honor Awards in 2016 and 2017, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Ignited Pathway Award for Automatic X-ray screening for Rural Areas in 2014.
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- Head of Competition Policy
Eberhard Schnebel is a philosopher, economist and theologian. He received his PhD in 1995 from the Faculty of Theology of the LMU in Munich and his habilitation in 2013 at the Faculty of Philosophy of the LMU. His work combines Theory of Action, System-Theory and Ethics as foundations for responsibility in business and management.
Eberhard Schnebel is teaching Business Ethics at Goethe University in Frankfurt since 2013. Since 2016 he is developing "Digital Ethics" to integrate ethical communication structures into design processes of digitization and Artificial Intelligence.
He is a member of the Executive Committee of the "European Business Ethics Network" (EBEN). This network is engaged in the establishment of a common European understanding of ethics as prerequisite for a converging European economy.
Eberhard Schnebel works full-time at Commerzbank AG, Group Risk Management, where he led the project "Data Ethics / Digital Ethics" to establish aspects of corporate ethics regarding digitalization, Big Data and AI in the financial industry. Prior to that, he led the project "Business Ethics and Finance Ethics" to introduce ethics as a tool for increasing management efficiency and accountability.
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- Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer / Black Swan LUX S.a. Luxembourg
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- Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam, Germany
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- Ethics Consultant / Head of the External Ethics Advisory Board, University College of Dublin, Ireland
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- SVP of Strategic Data Science, TwoSigma, USA / Professor Gerd Gigerenzer
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- President of the Norwegian Society of Radiology / Senior Advisor, Norwegian Board of Health Supervision
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- Ambassador. Director for International Climate and Energy Policy and Digital Transformation
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- President, Royal Aeronautical Society ( RAeS ) Chair of the RAeS Space Specialists Group
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- and Research Fellow, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo / Board Member of NORDE ( Norwegian Council for Digital Ethics )
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- Director Technology Standardization - Communications / Samsung Research America, Inc.
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- Deputy Director General and Chief Data Scientist
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- Ambassador for Cyber Affairs
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- Global Head Digital, Ethics Risk and Compliance / Novartis / Basel, Switzerland
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- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
- Juris Doctor ( J.D ), Law
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- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
- Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning / World Economic Forum
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- Chief Data Analytics, Partnerships and Technology Innovation
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- Founder, RethinkTheNet / Digital Development Consultant, the World Bank
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- Thought Leader Digital Ethics and Compliance Transformation Expert / Germany
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- Cardiology Department, Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany
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- President of Young Internists of Norway
Responsible for the digital transition - Presidency of the Council of Ministers
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- Co - Founder Radiological Artificial Intelligence Center / Professor in Musculoskeletal Radiology, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital and Copenhagen University / Denmark
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- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
- Rektor
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- President & CEO / Seoul National University Bundang Hospital / Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
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- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
- Principal Advisor, European Commission Directorate - General for Justice and Consumers
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- Adviser, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Board Member of ENR ( Ente Nazionale Ricerca E Promozione Della Standardizzazione ) Italy
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- Ambassador for Health and Wellbeing
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- Executive Vice President, Research and Evaluation / Director, Patient Insight Institute
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- Chief Strategist, FIPRA International
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- Head of Data and Artificial Intelligence Solutions / Credit
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- Associate Professor in Graduate School of Data Science at Seoul National University
Seunggeun (Shawn) Lee is an Associate Professor in Graduate School of Data Science at Seoul National University. He received his PhD in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina and completed a postdoctoral training at Harvard School of Public Health.
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- Ambassador for Innovation
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- Director of Research and Phase Director of the Health Ethics, Law and Professionalism Programme
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- Head of Digital Transformation Center Vietnam
Todor Iv anov is senior big data engineer speciali zing in the design, implementation and benchmarking of distributed big data systems and data-intensive applications. Until recently, he has worked as a senior researcher at the Frankfurt Big Data Lab at Goethe University involved in various projects in Ethical AI (Z-Inspection), Big Data and Big Data benchmarking (DataBench). In 2019 he obtained his Doctorate of Natural Sciences in Computer Science from Goethe University Frankfurt.
Prior to that, he has worked as a senior software engineer developing Flight Information Display Systems (FIDS) for multiple international airports, research assistant at the department of Databases and Distributed Systems, TU Darmstadt and IT consultant in business intelligence and database related projects in the bank sector.
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- President of Montreal.AI and Quebec.AI
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- Fellow Researcher at the Institut Des Hautes Etudes Sur La Justice ( IHEJ ) France