From: Kellogg AI Club Date: November 17, 2020 Subject: Kellogg AI Club Newsletter Nov 2020
K_AI News Nov 2020
11/16/2020
Kellogg AI Club leadership team is delighted to present our November 2020 newsletter. We hope to see you around in the upcoming AI events before the end of Fall Quarter, and wish you safe and well in the holiday season.
IN THIS NEWSLETTER
The Upcoming Featured K_AI Event
Events by Fellow Kellogg Student Groups
Kellogg/Northwestern School-Wide AI Events
Join Our Membership and LinkedIn Group
Fall 2020 New Officers on Our Team
Latest AI Article by Kellogg Faculty
The 4 Top AI Trends for 2021
Join our Slack channel #k_ai for more instant updates
Come to learn AI/Analytics related career life through the experiences and journeys of our amazing panel of Kellogg/Northwestern alums!
There will be networking sessions using Zoom breakout rooms for you to connect with our panelists.
Farrukh Khan: Kellogg '07, Founder & CEO at Inference Analytics, Inc. - a Chicago based startup of deep learning and AI platform for improving physician productivity and quality of care in healthcare
Kiran Pande: Kellogg '09, Co-Founder at VMock - a platform that delivers personalized career guidance to job seekers across the world by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence
Alejandro Herrera: Northwestern BS '13 & MS '15, Data Science Solution Leader at C3 ai - enterprise software platform to deploy big data, AI and IoT applications
Christopher Lam: Kellogg '15, Artificial Intelligence Researcher at the Federal Reserve
Kenn So: Kellogg '19, Venture Investor at Shasta Ventures, focusing on data/ML/AI startups, Founder of AI@Kellogg
Michael Ng: Kellogg '21, 2020 summer Nike Graduate Analytics Intern for Global Direct Digital Commerce, Co-President of Kellogg Data and Analytics Club
Events by Fellow Kellogg Student Groups
Kellogg MD-MBA Association: The Future of Augmented Intelligence in Healthcare
Come hear, Dr. Abel Kho the Director of the Institute of Augmented Intelligence in Medicine at Northwestern speak about major trends within AI in healthcare.
Kellogg Healthcare Club: CardioCare and AI Integration - Lunch & Learn
CardioCare and AI integration in structural heart disease; information on Edwards Lifesciences and our innovation in medical technologies.
School-Wide AI Events
Autonomous Systems Failures - Who is Legally and Morally Responsible?
RSVPWednesday, November 18, 2020 4:00 to 5:15 pm CST
A virtual panel event brought to you by the Northwestern University Law and Technology Initiative and AI@NU
In 2018, an Uber self-driving car hit and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. As artificial intelligence is woven into more facets of life, who should be legally and morally responsible for failures and other negative consequences to individuals and society? With Ryan Calo, Madeleine Clare Elish, and Todd Murphey moderated by Dan Linna, this panel will explore the legal, technological, and societal implications of assigning responsibility for autonomous systems failures.
This is Kellogg: Spotlight on AI (recording from 9/30/2020, 1st session in 3-part series, click the picture to watch)
How does AI spark innovation? Dean Francesca Cornelli and Dean Julio M. Ottino will provide an overview of the new MBAi Program, a joint degree between Kellogg and the McCormick School of Engineering offering a blended approach to the teaching of business innovation and the complex technologies that drive it forward.
Faculty from both schools will share their perspectives on how business leaders and students are learning how to leverage AI to grow organizations and spark innovation.
This is Kellogg: Spotlight on AI (recording from 10/20/2020, 2nd session in 3-part series, click the picture to watch)
Kellogg faculty share their research on how machines are enhancing human expertise and decoding creativity, and the psychological implications of an automated world.
Featured Kellogg Faculty Speakers
• Eric Anderson, moderator, Hartmarx Professor of Marketing, Director of the Center for Global Marketing Practice, Director of the Kellogg-McCormick MBAi Program
• Brian Uzzi, Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change, Co-Director of Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
• Dashun Wang, Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Director of the Center for Science of Science and Innovation
• Adam Waytz, Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor in Ethics and Decision Management, Professor of Management & Organizations
Join Our Membership and LinkedIn Group
If you haven't yet, we encourage you to join Kellogg AI Club membership to fully access our variety of activities and our member-only LinkedIn group
Informative: learn more about AI and Analytics in businesses from our info sessions, newsletters, guest speeches, and conferences
Skill-oriented: acquire in-demand skill sets such as R and Tableau from our training workshops
Hands-on: get hands-on experiences by working with science and engineering students on cool projects and startup ideas via our collaboration with Northwestern’s master programs related to AI and Analytics
Career-related: explore AI oriented companies and career opportunities in our AI Career Treks
Fall 2020 New Officers on Our Team
Latest AI Articel by Kellogg Faculty
Harvard Business Review
A Simple Tactic That Could Help Reduce Bias in AI by Brian Uzzi
It’s been well-established that AI-driven systems are subject to the biases of their human creators — we unwittingly “bake” biases into systems by training them on biased data or with “rules” created by experts with implicit biases. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The good news is that more strategic use of AI systems — through “blind taste tests” — can give us a fresh chance to identify and remove decision biases from the underlying algorithms even if we can’t remove them completely from our own habits of mind. Read the full HBR article
Prof. Brian Uzzi is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He also co-directs the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), and holds professorships in Sociology and at the McCormick School of Engineering.
The 4 Top AI Trends for 2021
Before the global pandemic struck in 2020 and the world was turned on its head, artificial intelligence (AI), and specifically the branch of AI known as machine learning (ML), were already causing widespread disruption in almost every industry.
Here are the top 4 AI trends for 2021
Smarter big data, data analytics and insights
Automated detection and prevention
Business on the rebound – predicting behavioral transformation
Shutting down the next pandemic before it even starts
