Legal and Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence 2021

The Center for Law & Innovation at the University of Maine School of Law is partnering with Roux Institute and Northeastern Law to host a virtual conference. Professor Tina Eliassi-Rad will be a featured speaker for the panel on “Ethics in Data Science: Building ethical practices into algorithms and their applications.”

About the Speaker:

Tina Eliassi-Rad is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. She is also a core faculty member at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute. Prior to joining Northeastern, Tina was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University; and before that she was a Member of Technical Staff and Principal Investigator at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Tina earned her Ph.D. in Computer Sciences (with a minor in Mathematical Statistics) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research is rooted in data mining and machine learning; and spans theory, algorithms, and applications of big data from networked representations of physical and social phenomena. She has over 80 peer-reviewed publications (including a few best paper and best paper runner-up awardees); and has given over 190 invited talks and 13 tutorials.

The all-day conference will take place on Friday, June 11, 2021. Eliassi-Rad will be speaking in the “Ethics in Data Science” presentation from 11:30AM to 1:00 PM ET. To register, click here.