Top Ten Al Women in the World

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Eight months ago, ChatGPT was born, and the AI wave swept the world. The whole world is vying for AI and machine learning talents. Top AI scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors have become the hottest technology stars.

According to a 2020 LinkedIn report, AI specialists have already topped the list of emerging jobs in the United States. Job openings have increased by 74% annually over the past 4 years. However, one phenomenon deserves attention.

A 2020 World Economic Forum study found that AI is still a male-dominated field, with only 26% of global data and AI practitioners being women. According to a report by Stanford University, in 2021, women will only account for 16% of the tenure-track faculty dedicated to AI in the world.

It can be seen that compared to the "half the sky" status of women in the labor markets of various countries (US women account for 46%), how rare are those dazzling female AI leaders.

The following are the ten most outstanding female leaders in the field of AI selected by the editorial department of Entrepreneur State. Whether in scientific research, business management, or venture capital, each of them is breaking prejudice, exploring new frontiers and creating new paradigms in the world of AI.

Li Feifei: ImageNet project leader

Li Feifei is known as a key scientist who led mankind into the AI era. The ImageNet project she led has accelerated the development of AI.

Fei-Fei Li was born in China and became a professor at Princeton University after immigrating to the United States. In 2007, when most AI research focused on models and algorithms, Li Feifei wanted to improve the datasets for training AI algorithms, so he launched the ImageNet large-scale visual database project and manually annotated more than 14 million images through crowdsourcing. And held an ImageNet challenge-competing which algorithm can identify the objects contained in the image with the highest accuracy.

Source of Feifei Li: WIRED

This eight-session competition screened out many talents in the AI field and witnessed the birth of many great technologies. In the 2012 ImageNet Challenge, the Geoffrey Hinton team of the University of Toronto won a big victory with the new deep convolutional neural network AlexNet, achieving a qualitative leap in the field of image classification and recognition, which is considered a landmark event in the AI era.

Since then, Feifei Li has become a tenured professor at Stanford University, served as the chief scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud, and also participated in the founding of the famous non-profit organization AI4ALL, whose mission is to promote diversity and inclusion through human-centered AI values, thereby Educate the next generation of AI technologists, thinkers, and leaders.

Joy Branvini: Founder of the Algorithmic Justice League

Joy Buolamwini (Joy Buolamwini) is a black female scholar who has made outstanding contributions to combating the bias of algorithms and was hailed by Fortune as "the conscience of the AI revolution."

Joy Buolamwini Source: THE FEMINIST PORTFOLIO

Joy Branvini grew up in the United States and enrolled at the MIT Media Lab at the age of 25, where she began to study the race, skin type and gender differences embedded in commercial facial recognition technology. Her research revealed that systems from Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and others were unable to gender classify dark female faces as accurately as they could identify white males — effectively dispelling the myth of machine neutrality. In 2016, Branvini founded the nonprofit Algorithmic Justice League (AJL) to promote fair and responsible AI.

Song Xiaodong: Godmother of Computer Security

Song Xiaodong (Dawn Song) graduated from Tsinghua University and is now a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on computer security and artificial intelligence. Song Xiaodong believes that "AI will support the realization of new network security capabilities, and network security will ensure better application and development of AI."

Dawn Song Source: WIRED

Song Xiaodong was awarded the MacArthur Genius Award, and was included in the "35 Innovators Under 35" list by MIT Technology Review in 2009. Her "Dynamic Taint Analysis" paper is the most cited paper in the field of computer security, so she is known as the godmother of computer security. In 2018, Song Xiaodong founded the blockchain company Oasis Labs, served as CEO, and received US$45 million in financing.

Cynthia Brazel: A pioneer in the field of social robotics

Cynthia Breazeal is a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an entrepreneur in the field of social robotics, with a strong reputation in the social robotics industry.

Cynthia Breazeal Source: MIT News

When Cynthia Brezel was a Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000, she began to study the topic of "coexistence of humans and AI". In 2012, she founded Jibo social robot company, dedicated to providing users with comfortable and safe social artificial intelligence companionship. Jibo is being billed as "the first social robot for the home" (it won Time magazine's Best Invention award). The company has obtained more than 70 million US dollars in 6 rounds of financing, and was successfully acquired by NTT Corporation in 2020.

Mira Muratti: Creator of ChatGPT

Mira Murati, 35, is the chief technology officer of OpenAI and the technical lead of the ChatGPT and Dall-E projects. She was dubbed "the creator of ChatGPT" by Time magazine for her role in the opening of generative AI.

Mira Murati Source: YouTube Video

Mira Murati was born in Albania and received a degree in mechanical engineering from Dartmouth College in the United States. After graduation, she worked as a senior researcher at Google and Microsoft. After joining OpenAI in 2018, she led a team of 375 people to develop the OpenAI GPT-3 model. With her push, ChatGPT left the lab and opened it up to the public. At the same time, she is also one of the industry insiders who firmly supports the regulation of AI.

Muratti believes that the ultimate purpose of AI technology is to serve human beings, so it should focus on human interests and needs to solve practical problems faced by human beings.

Shruti Gandhi: Founder of Array Ventures Venture Fund

Shruti Gandhi is the founder of Array Ventures and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Gandhi believes that it is very important for investment institutions to support female founders in the AI field, because female founders participating in training artificial intelligence can reduce gender bias.

Shruti Gandhi Source: Shruti Gandhi Twitter

Gandhi grew up in Mumbai and studied machine learning algorithms at Columbia University in the United States. In 2015, he founded Array Ventures, focusing on investing in early-stage big data, AI and machine learning companies. More than one-third of the companies she has invested in are led by women. At present, 6 companies have been acquired by technology giants such as Apple, Paypal and Samsung, with a return of more than 10 times.

Marisa Warren: Founder of ALIAVIA Ventures

As a well-known investor, Marisa Warren (Marisa Warren) believes that in the United States, the return rate of VC investing in female founders is 35% higher than that of male-led companies, but only 1.9% of venture capital is attracted. In Australia, the figure is just 0.7%.

Marisa Warren Source: anthill

In order to change this situation, in 2015, Marisa established ELEVACAO, a global female technology founder accelerator, which raised 120 million US dollars for 175 female entrepreneurs and created three exit cases.

In 2020, Marisa and her partners co-founded the venture capital fund ALIAVIA Ventures, which focuses on providing support for early female technology founders in the United States and Australia, especially AI female entrepreneurs.

Lana El Kaliubi: Leader of Emotional AI

Rana el Kaliouby (Rana el Kaliouby) is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur. She is committed to the research and development of AI expression recognition technology, which allows AI to recognize human emotions and thus become more humane.

Rana el Kaliouby Source: Rana el Kaliouby Twitter

Kaliubi grew up in Cairo, Egypt, earned his Ph.D. at Cambridge University, and joined the MIT Media Lab as a research scientist. Here she pioneered the application of emotion recognition technology to several fields, including mental health and autism. She co-founded Affectiva with Rosalind Picard and serves as CEO. Known for defining the field of emotional AI and currently working with 25% of the Fortune 500, the company is a leader in emotional AI.

Anna Patterson: Founder and Managing Partner, Gradient Ventures

Anna Patterson has a proven track record in engineering and investing in AI. Before investing in any AI startup, Patterson asks himself one question: "Am I constantly thinking about their vision and mission?"

Anna Patterson Source: Gradient Ventures official website

Anna Patterson joined Google in 2004 and served as Google's vice president of AI engineering, responsible for integrating AI into Google's products. In 2017, she founded Google's AI venture capital fund Gradient Ventures, which focuses on investing in early-stage AI startups. Patterson is also a board member of many promising AI startups, including Algorithmia, Labelbox, and test.ai.

Daphne Kohler: CEO and Founder of Insitro

Daphne Koller (Daphne Koller) is a top scholar and entrepreneur in the field of AI. She received a master's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the age of 18 and became a professor at Stanford University at the age of 26. She has been focusing on the field of machine learning for many years and won the MacArthur "Genius Award" ".

Daphne Koller Source: Forbes

Daphne Kohler is very good at applying AI to create value in different areas of society. In 2012, she co-founded the educational technology start-up Coursera with Stanford University professor and artificial intelligence leader Andrew Ng. billion-dollar edtech giant. In February 2018, Daphne Kohler established insitro, an AI new drug research and development company, with a total financing of 743 million US dollars. The investment institutions include BlackRock, Google and other star institutions.

For young people who have just entered the field of AI, Kohler's advice is: choose an AI application that is of great value to society, and then work hard. "I am able to start insitro today because I spent 20 years studying biology. I advise young people today to look for opportunities in energy and the environment."

In the coming era of AI, women's voices should not account for only 26%, and the creative team of AI should be as diverse as the people affected by AI. The addition of more outstanding women will create a fairer, more diverse and humane AI.