Colleen Farrelly
Colleen Farrelly is a lead data scientist whose expertise spans many industries and machine learning applications, including topological data analysis, NLP, and time series methods. She volunteers her time as a mentor on projects related to her expertise in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sessions
Panel Discussion - Diversity in Data Science
This talk will overview how NLP is being used in research and industry to preserve at-risk languages, power technologies to solve pressing problems (like employment matches), and create culturally-attuned NLP tools (like sentiment analysis). Current challenges include data ownership and local population rights to their data. Examples come from partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa, but they apply to other regions of the world, as well.