K_AI News Jan 2021

1/12/2021

Happy New Year!

Kellogg AI Club leadership team is proud to present our January 2021 newsletter with TEN events already scheduled and more in the Winter Quarter, aiming at helping Kellogg community learn more about the AI movement that has been reshaping the business world and human life. Warmest welcome to E&W 2021 Winter Cohort!

IN THIS NEWSLETTER

Ten Upcoming K_AI Events
Kellogg 2021 Data Hackathon
K_AI Career Trek Announcement
Join Our Membership and LinkedIn Group
AI@NU - Centralized Hub for AI Communities at Northwestern

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Ten Upcoming K_AI Events

Click the title of each event below for details and registration.

1

Deep Learning has been THE horsepower that drives Artificial Intelligence capabilities in numerous ways. We are thrilled to have Prof. Diego Klabjan, Director of Center for Deep Learning (CDL) and Director of Master of Science in Analytics (MSiA) at Northwestern, to talk about Deep Learning.

2

Professor Eric Anderson will share insights on the essentials of AI and Analytics that current Kellogg MBA students should know. Prof. Anderson, former chair of Kellogg Marketing Department, is the director of the new MBAi program that is specifically designed for leaders operating at the nexus of business and AI-driven technology.

3

Our speaker will talk about the Managerial Analytics concepts for managers, consultants, and professionals tasked with evaluating analytics products or vendors. Prof. Watson has also been an entrepreneur who built multiple successful startups of Analytics/Optimization/AI solutions. This event is co-hosted with KDA.

4

This exciting AI and robotic event will cover the business, technological, and social aspects of aibo, Sony’s robotic puppy powered by AI. Speakers include: Michiko Kelley (Kellogg ’00) VP of Corporate Marketing & New Business at Sony, software design engineers Yuichiro To and Takafumi Hosoi from Sony, and Kellogg Prof. Adam Waytz an award-winning social psychologist. Organized by Kellogg AI Club, co-hosted by AI@NU and Kellogg Japan Club.

5

Professor Hatim Rahman will give a preview of this course that he is teaching again in Spring 2021 with both full-time and E&W sessions. The course, MORS-944 Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work, brings into sharp focus on the role AI technologies have today in organizations and how they can be practically harnessed.

6

Professor David Zaretsky, the course instructor and CEO, Chief Scientist & Founder at Snips Media, will go over NUvention Analytics (ENTREP 475) in Spring 2021, including ideation, team building, and application. It is a unique entrepreneurship course for students to build businesses around their innovations of analytics technologies. Co-hosted with KDA.

7

How does AI bridge the gap from documents to decisions by quickly extracting the answers you need? Dr. Lewis Liu, Co-Founder and CEO of Eigen Technologies, will talk about the company's Document AI platform that enables clients to focus their time on making faster and more informed decisions instead of analyzing pages of financial and legal documents.

8

We will cover participation info and rules of Kellogg 2021 Data Hackathon, which will use rich data sets generated within Kellogg community for teams to analyze and find impactful insights.

9

Join us as SoftBank Robotics' Director of Global Business Development, Shin Hara ('17 Kellogg), shares SoftBank's vision and key initiatives in the robotics domain. Organized by Kellogg Japan Club and co-hosted with Kellogg AI Club.

10

Surprise of no surprise, AI has been able to do it, consuming complex data to tell the story in human language that a lot of analysts and data scientist have been doing for a living. Mauro Mujica-Parodi III (Kellogg '11), the Chief Product Officer at Narrative Science based in Chicago, will tell us more about the AI solution for data storytelling and his experience of product management as a Kellogg alum.

Kellogg 2021 Data Hackathon

Are you aware that large and rich data sets have been continuously generated by ourselves within the Kellogg community?
As you may quickly name a few, what insights do you think can be extracted from those data sets?
To leave a legacy behind your Kellogg time, what improvements at Kellogg have you envisioned that can be achieved by making data driven decisions?

If you have thoughts for these questions, you should not miss the Kellogg Data Hackathon
Students from different business schools could work on data sets supplied by various companies, but only we have the privilege to look deep into Kellogg's own data
Join us on Feb 5th for the info session

K_AI Career Trek Announcement

Career Trek is a great Kellogg tradition year over year, organized by a number of student clubs and supported by Kellogg Career Management Center.

Kellogg AI Club is initiating our first round of Career Trek events in Winter Quarter 2021 for participants to closely interact with AI oriented companies for potential career opportunities.

If you are interested, we encourage you to attend the two guest speaker events of ours mentioned above with Eigen Technologies and Narrative Science beforehand, as they may be part of the first group of companies.

Follow our communication for more details of K_AI Career Trek that will take place in a later stage of Winter Quarter, which will be exclusive for Kellogg AI Club members.

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, as our Career Trek and LinkedIn group are exclusive to members only.

Members Benefits

AI@NU

At the heart of Northwestern is a spirit of collaboration. Being the university-wide hub for Artificial Intelligence communities, AI@NU is diversified and multifaceted, consisting of many initiatives across multiple schools and a dynamic community of researchers and practitioners, which can apply the technology across a spectrum of opportunities.