DADC Workshop
HumL
Description: User Centric Data Science
Lora Aroyo is research scientist at Google Research, NYC where she works in the area of Responsible AI specifically focussing on research for Data Excellence, e.g. metrics and strategies to measure quality of human-labeled data in a reliable and transparent way.
Lora is an active member of the Human Computation, User Modeling & Semantic Web communities. She is president of the User Modeling community UM Inc , which serves as a steering committee for the ACM Conference Series “ User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization ” (UMAP) sponsored by SIGCHI and SIGWEB . She is also a member of the ACM SIGCHI conferences board .
Prior to joining Google, Lora was a computer science professor at the VU University Amsterdam. Since 2010 she has actively worked towards shaping the concept of “ User-Centric Data Science “, which ultimately led to the forming of and her heading the User-centric Data Science group at the Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , The Netherlands and further extending collaborations on this as a visiting scholar at the Columbia Data Science Institute at Columbia University.
DADC Workshop
HumL