Marvelous.ai is developing natural language tools to analyze political discourse in news and social media . Danielle is particularly focused on how messaging spreads, both negatively (propaganda) and positively (pro-democracy campaigns). In this interview, she chats with OMGitsfirefoxx about her approach to detecting political narratives utilizing human-in-the-loop alongside other natural language processing techniques, with examples focused on the 2020 US presidential election.

Kate Taylor, a high school student and AI4ALL project member is joining us today to share her work in this area. Kate presented her work in the area in our rising stars session in Boston earlier this year. AI4ALL is an amazing project encouraging the next generation of experts to explore all areas of AI. Ellie, from the RE•WORK team spoke with Kate about her presentation and some of the things she’s learned throughout her time at AI4ALL. Kate also shares some of the challenges she’s working on, as well as her long term goals.

Neva is the chief computational scientist at Aiden lab at Baylor College of Medicine where she creates analysis and visualisation software of assays exploring how DNA folds in three dimensions. Neva explains how although there have been some huge breakthroughs in healthcare with AI, the promised revolution in medicine is yet to come as there is still so much we don’t know about how DNA regulates cell function. Hear how Neva is working with Deep Learning to bring us closer to AI-powered medicine.

Artificial intelligence has the power to unlock the secrets of gene expression. Using deep learning, the wealth of genomic information that is being created can be understood and used to improve healthcare, drug discovery, and develop new cures. Gracelyn will talk about how deep learning can be used to analyze genetic data and demo her project related to predicting transcription factor-DNA binding. She will also talk about the implications of using deep learning to extract meaningful conclusions from genetic data and what it will mean for the future of the genomics industry.

CEO and Co-Founder of Affectiva joins us on the Podcast today to discuss her work in emotionally intelligent AI where we discuss how it can be used in a variety of areas such as treating people with autism, as well as there being commercial opportunities in social robotics and other areas. Rana was interviewed by Gracelyn Shi from the knowledge society, who asked some fantastic questions about some of Rana’s goals, challenges, ethical concerns, and how she’s inspiring women in AI.

Welcome to season 2 of the podcast, AI for Good.

In this episode, Gracelyn Shi from The Knowledge Society spoke with Alice Xiang from the Partnership on AI who is working as a research scientist in the areas of fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI.

Find out about our upcoming series focusing on the applications of AI for social good.

In recent years, we are becoming more conscious of our eating habits and our health, and with the help of personalised health platforms, we are able to better monitor our diet, which in turn better our wellbeing. Amice is currently working on her app, eatrite, a personalised food recommendation platform, which, through AI and machine learning algorithms, identifies the dishes on the menu and provides the user with the nutritional value that the dish would provide. This way, users are able to make a better choice when opting for their meal.

Martha’s primary research goal is to develop techniques for adaptive autonomous systems that learn on streams of data with an applied focus on computational sustainability. She focuses on reinforcement learning and representation learning to achieve this goal. In particular, Martha cares about efficient, practical algorithms that enable learning from large amounts of data. Areas of expertise: algorithms & theory, artificial intelligence, machine learning, reinforcement learning.

Vielka is working on supporting underserved students towards their goal of graduation with little debt. At Bridge to College, Vielka is aiming to match students to colleges that will fund and graduate them on-time. In this episode of the podcast, we spoke about her work in education and her journey into AI.