Neurips 2024

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  • Scientific Committee Biographies

Dr. Mohammad Ghassemi

Dr. Mohammad Ghassemi is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Michigan State University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in electrical engineering and computer science, specializing in artificial intelligence. Dr. Ghassemi’s research focuses on developing tools and systems that integrate human and machine intelligence to tackle complex problems. In 2021, he was named a National Scholar for Data and Technology Advancement at the NIH, where he led the development of BRAINWORKS, an innovative platform for visualizing over 40 years of scientific knowledge as an interactive graph. He is also the lead inventor on multiple US patents and has authored over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers in prestigious journals, including Nature (Scientific Data), Science (Translational Medicine), Proceedings of the IEEE, and the Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Ghassemi’s work has been cited over 10,000 times and has garnered attention from major media outlets such as the BBC, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal. His significant contributions to the intersection of AI and medicine earned him the title of “AI Champion” by AIMed in 2021, and he received the JP Morgan Chase Faculty Research Award in 2022.

Artur Filipowicz

Artur Filipowicz is a product manager and entrepreneur with a background in both industry and research. His resume boasts experience in product development at Waymo, a self-driving car technology company. He also founded and led Soterea, Inc., a company developing collision avoidance technologies for trucks and buses. Artur holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University. His expertise in artificial intelligence garnered him recognition in a 2017 Economist article titled “Why AI Researchers Like Video Games.” The article highlighted his innovative work leveraging synthetic data from video games to train models for real-world distance measurements crucial for autonomous vehicles.

(See https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2017/05/13/why-ai-researchers-like-video-games

  • Organizer Biography

Jonathan Sutter, J.D., MBA, BBA

Jonathan Sutter has nearly twenty years of experience working in and around the travel industry,  Jonathan started his career in the late 1990s in Capacity Planning (strategy) at America West Airlines. Through 2011, Jonathan was a (Senior) Associate in the Aviation Practice at the global law firm, WilmerHale, in Washington, D.C., including work as part of the outside counsel team that helped United Airlines obtain landmark new service to Asia. Jonathan subsequently worked in a variety of travel technology, strategy and data roles, including leadership of a team managing negotiations with airlines throughout the Americas for Travelport (Senior Director, Americas); business development work for Datalex (Vice President, Sales); Airport Strategy work at Frontier Airlines; and management of business development and account success for the Travel Practice at J.D. Power (Senior Director). Jonathan has also led innovation and thought leadership panels and events, including the creation of JD/MBA alumni summits (involving 16 universities) in 2013 and 2014 at The Cornell Club in NYC; co-creation of the Fuqua/Duke Travel Summit in 2014; and creation and leadership of a global innovation summit at the Harvard Club of NYC in 2017.  Jonathan holds J.D. and MBA degrees from Duke University and a BBA degree from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Jonathan currently runs TravelingWiki Foundation (http://www.TravelingWiki.com), the largest non-profit resource center on the internet documenting US Airport resources for Autism, ALS, Parkinson’s, Dementia and Alzheimer’s. Jonathan has attended NeurIPS proceedings numerous times over the past few years.
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