History and What's New with WiMLDS - a Fireside Chat with Founder, Erin LeDell

Please join us for the Seattle Women in Machine Learning and Data Science super exciting re-launch event!!! 🥳

Come hear the story and history and what's new with WiMLDS from the organization’s founder, Erin LeDell, in an interview-style fireside chat with two of the organizers of the Seattle chapter, Eloisa and Micheleen. 🎉

We will also have breakout rooms to meet each other in a smaller format and discuss how WiMLDS can best serve you. 💎

All members are welcome 😍 to attend this historic online event! 🔥🚀

Erin’s Bio:

Dr. LeDell is the Chief Scientist at Distributional, Inc, the modern enterprise platform for Al testing and evaluation. Since 2013, she is also the CEO of DataScientific, Inc., a boutique Al Advisory and Consulting firm specializing in the development and implementation of cutting-edge Al solutions.

Previously, she was the Chief Machine Learning Scientist at H2O.ai, a leading Al company known for producing H2O, an open-source, distributed machine learning platform, along with Driverless Al, h20GPT, LLMStudio, and a range of other Enterprise Al systems. At H2O.ai, she created the H2O AutoML algorithm, the first enterprise open source AutoML tool. She also spearheaded efforts in explainable/interpretable Al, algorithmic fairness and Al benchmarking and measurement. She is co-creator of the OpenML AutoML Benchmark, the industry standard benchmarking platform for AutoML algorithms.

Before joining H2O.ai, she was the Principal Data Scientist at two Al startups (both acquired), founded DataScientific, Inc. and was a software engineer at a large consulting firm. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley where her research focused on machine learning and computational statistics. She also holds a B.S. and M.A. in Mathematics.

Software projects: https://github.com/ledell
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ledell.bsky.social
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ledell