Distinguished Speakers: Oxford Women in Computer Science

Oxford Women In Computer Science Society organises talks by distinguished speakers from academia or industry who - through talking about their career paths and experiences - could become role models and inspirations to attendees. The slides of previous talks can be found on Slideshare.

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• 11Jun2024
  Keynote for Oxford Computer Science Conference

  14:00 Tuesday 11th June ( Trinity Term 2024 ) in LTB Wolfson Building

  Speaker: Prof. Philippa Gardner
• 26Feb2024
  Ethics in AI and Earth Observation: Many Worlds and Many World-Views

  15:30 Monday 26th February ( Hilary Term 2024 ) in Large Lecture Theatre at Department of Statistics

  Speaker: Prof. Mrinalini Kochupillai
• 22Jan2024
  Time - The next frontier in Machine Learning

  14:00 Monday 22nd January ( Hilary Term 2024 ) in Large Lecture Theatre at Department of Statistics

  Speaker: Prof. Mihaela van der Schaar
• 28Nov2023
  Axioms as rules: How to reason with mathematical theories

  15:00 Tuesday 28th November ( Michaelmas Term 2023 ) in LTB Wolfson Building

  Speaker: Prof. Elaine Pimentel
• 30Oct2023
  Karla Miller: Developing novel methods for acquiring, reconstructing and analyzing MRI scans of the brain

  15:30 Monday 30th October ( Michaelmas Term 2023 ) in LTB Wolfson Building

  Speaker: Prof. Karla Miller
• 14Feb2023
  Intelligent systems in cancer care

  14:00 Tuesday 14th February ( Hilary Term 2023 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Speaker: Prof Lena Maier-Hein
• 17Jan2023
  Bridging the gap between research and IT: Enhancing science in public clouds

  14:00 Tuesday 17th January ( Hilary Term 2023 ) in Room 051, CS Department

  Speaker: Dr. Jarunan Panyasantisuk
• 29Nov2022
  Computer science meets big data and healthcare: a journey from PhD in machine learning to Associate Professorship in labour monitoring

  14:00 Tuesday 29th November ( Michaelmas Term 2022 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Speaker: Prof Antoniya Georgieva
• 18Oct2022
  Diagnosing Infectious Diseases Using Deep Learning and Time Series Imaging with Wearable Monitors in Resource-Limited Settings

  14:00 Tuesday 18th October ( Michaelmas Term 2022 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Speaker: Dr. Ping Lu
• 16Jun2022
  Improving Robustness to Distribution Shifts: Methods and Benchmarks

  17:00 Thursday 16th June ( Trinity Term 2022 ) in Online

  Speaker: Shiori Sagawa
• 19Apr2022
  Symmetry and Structure in Deep Reinforcement Learning

  14:00 Tuesday 19th April ( Trinity Term 2022 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Speaker: Elise van der Pol
• 1Mar2022
  Dynamical modeling, decoding, and control of multiscale brain networks: from motor to mood

  15:00 Tuesday 1st March ( Hilary Term 2022 ) in Online

  Speaker: Maryam Shanechi
• 18Jan2022
  Introducing Distributed AI Research Institute

  17:00 Tuesday 18th January ( Hilary Term 2022 ) in Online

  Speaker: Dr. Timnit Gebru
• 9Nov2021
  Scoring Systems: At the Extreme of Interpretable Machine Learning

  14:00 Tuesday 9th November ( Michaelmas Term 2021 ) in Online

  Speaker: Cynthia Rudin
• 12Oct2021
  Chatbots can be good: What we learn from unhappy users

  17:00 Tuesday 12th October ( Michaelmas Term 2021 ) in Online

  Speaker: Rachael Tatman
• 11May2021
  Modeling Chemistry for Drug Discovery: Current State and Unsolved Challenges

  16:00 Tuesday 11th May ( Trinity Term 2021 ) in Online

  Regina Barzilay ( MIT )
• 4May2021
  Evaluating Automatically Generated Fact Checking Explanations

  14:00 Tuesday 4th May ( Trinity Term 2021 ) in Online

  Isabelle Augenstein ( University of Copenhagen )
• 10Mar2021
  SAfe ML: robustness, verification and Privacy

  16:00 Tuesday 10th March ( Trinity Term 2021 ) in Online

  Shafi Goldwasser ( University of California Berkeley )
• 23Feb2021
  Interpretability, the past, present and future.

  14:00 23rd February ( Hilary Term 2021 ) in Online

  Been Kim ( Google Brain )
• 26Jan2021
  Ethical ML: mind the assumptions

  14:00 Tuesday 26th January ( Hilary Term 2021 ) in Online

  Isabel Valera ( Saarland University, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems )
• 24Nov2020
  Reinforcement Learning for Healthcare

  14:00 Tuesday 24th November ( Michaelmas Term 2020 ) in Online

  Finale Doshi-Velez ( Harvard University )
• 10Nov2020
  Better Document-level Machine Translation with Bayes’ Rule

  14:00 Tuesday 10th November ( Michaelmas Term 2020 ) in Online

  Lei Yu ( Google Deepmind )
• 25Feb2020
  What is disentangling and does intelligence need it?

  14:00 Tuesday 25th February ( Hilary Term 2020 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Irina Higgins ( Google DeepMind )
• 4Feb2020
  Visual Question Answering: Progress and Challenges

  14:00 Tuesday 4th February ( Hilary Term 2020 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Aishwarya Agrawal ( Google DeepMind )
• 28Jan2020
  Machine learning interpretability, explainability and trustability: Defining the research agenda and current progress

  14:00 Tuesday 28th January ( Hilary Term 2020 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Mihaela van der Schaar ( University of Cambridge )
• 24Jan2020
  A Picture-based Approach to Travel Recommender Systems

  15:00 Friday 24th January ( week 1, Hilary Term 2020 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Julia Neidhardt ( TU Wien )
• 4Jun2019
  Interactive 3D Modeling and Digital Fabrication

  14:00 Tuesday 4th June ( week 6, Trinity Term 2019 ) in Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building

  Olga Sorkine-Hornung ( ETH Zurich )
• 28May2019
  White Coat, Black Box: Augmenting Clinical Care with AI in the Era of Deep Learning

  14:00 Tuesday 28th May ( week 5, Trinity Term 2019 ) in Lecture Theatre A, Wolfson Building

  Jenna Wiens ( University of Michigan )
• 7May2019
  Fun Facts about Polynomials, and Applications to Distributed Storage

  14:00 Tuesday 7th May ( week 2, Trinity Term 2019 ) in Lecture Theatre B, Wolfson Building

  Mary Wootters ( Stanford University )
• 22Jan2019
  From IoT to Ephemeral Computing: Understanding Cyber-Physical Interactions for Monitoring and Control

  14:00 Tuesday 22nd January ( week 2, Hilary Term 2019 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Julie McCann ( Imperial College )
• 26Nov2018
  Learning from Demonstration: Applications and challenges

  14:00 Monday 26th November ( week 8, Michaelmas Term 2018 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Feryal Behbahani ( Latent Logic )
• 5Jun2018
  Fine-Grained Algorithms and Complexity

  14:00 5th June ( Trinity Term 2018 ) in LTB

  Dr Virginia Vassilevska Williams ( MIT )
• 1May2018
  From Design Time To Run Time: Formal Methods for Ensuring the Safety of Safety-Critical Aerospace Systems

  14:00 Tuesday 1st May ( Trinity Term 2018 ) in LTB

  Kristin Yvonne Rozier
• 28Nov2017
  Embedding machine learning in formal stochastic models of biological processes

  14:00 28th November ( week 8, Michaelmas Term 2017 ) in LTB

  Jane Hillston ( University of Edinburgh )
• 20Nov2017
  Trust in cybersecurity: a building block or a unifying concept?

  14:00 20th November ( Michaelmas Term 2017 ) in LTB

  Claire Vishik ( Intel )
• 31Oct2017
  Verification and Validation of Robot Assistants

  14:00 Tuesday 31st October ( week 4, Michaelmas Term 2017 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Clare Dixon ( university of Liverpool )
• 13Jun2017
  Using second-order information in training large-scale machine learning models.

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  Katya Scheinberg ( Lehigh University )
• 25May2017
  Deep Reinforcement Learning in Complex Environments

  11:00 Thursday 25th May ( week 5, Trinity Term 2017 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Raia Hadsell ( Google )
• 23May2017
  Preventing Information Leaks with Policy-Agnostic Programming

  14:00 Tuesday 23rd May ( week 5, Trinity Term 2017 ) in Lecture Theatre B, Wolfson Building, Department of Computer Science

  Jean Yang ( Carnegie Mellon University )
• 28Mar2017
  Leave No Valuable Data Behind: the Crazy Ideas and the Business

  14:00 28th March ( week -2, Trinity Term 2017 ) in LTA, Department of Computer Science

  Luna Dong ( Amazon )
• 28Feb2017
  Cost-Utility Analysis in Probabilistic Models

  14:00 Tuesday 28th February ( Hilary Term 2017 ) in Lecture Theatre B, Wolfson Building, Parks Road

  Christel Baier ( Technische Universität Dresden )
• 2Dec2016
  Guaranteed Non-convex Machine Learning Algorithms through Spectral Methods

  14:00 Friday 2nd December ( week 8, Michaelmas Term 2016 ) in Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building

  Prof. Anima Anandkumar ( University of California Irvine )
• 11Oct2016
  Can algorithmic group theory offer quantum resistant algorithms to be used for cryptography?

  14:00 Tuesday 11th October ( week Week 1, Michaelmas Term 2016 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Delaram Kahrobaei
• 4Jul2016
  Hyperparameter Tuning

  14:00 4th July 2016 in Tony Hoare Room (48)

  Natalia Ponomareva ( Google NY )
• 17May2016
  Searching for datasets: discovering, organizing, and understanding structured data

  14:00 Tuesday 17th May ( Trinity Term 2016 ) <meta itemprop="location" content="TBA"/>

  Natasha Noy (Stanford University)
• 26Apr2016
  Modelling Behaviour for Virtual Humans and Social Robots: recent developments and what next?

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  Dr Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
• 9Feb2016
  Data Curation at Scale

  14:00 Tuesday 9th February 2016 in Lecture Theatre B

  Professor Renée J. Miller
• 21Jan2016
  Information access through search engines and digital libraries: past, present, and future

  13:30 Thursday 21st January ( Hilary Term 2016 ) in LTB

  Maristella Agosti
• 24Nov2015
  Discourse processing in scientific articles and social media

  14:00 Tuesday 24th November ( week 7, Michaelmas Term 2015 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Maria Liakata ( University of Warwick )
• 13Oct2015
  What Men Say, What Women Hear: Using Semantics To Make Better Sense of Gender Differences in Social Media

  14:00 Tuesday 13th October ( week 1, Michaelmas Term 2015 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Rada Mihalcea ( University of Michigan )
• 30Apr2015
  Modern Cryptography in the Age of Cloud Computing


  14:00 Thursday 30th April ( week 1, Trinity Term 2015 ) in LTB

  Shafi Goldwasser ( MIT )
• 3Mar2015
  Metric Temporal Logic for Data Words

  14:00 Tuesday 3rd March ( week 7, Hilary Term 2015 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Dr. Karin Quaas ( Universität Leipzig )
• 24Feb2015
  Of Plans, Programs, and Automata: 101 things you can do with AI Automated Planning

  14:00 Tuesday 24th February ( week 6, Hilary Term 2015 ) in LTB

  Prof. Sheila McIlraith ( University of Toronto )
• 20Feb2015
  You had me at Hello, World: 1:1 Mentoring with the Leaders of Tech

  12:00 Friday 20th February ( week 5, Hilary Term 2015 ) in LTB

  Dona Sarkar ( Microsoft )
• 10Feb2015
  How to add a language to the linguistic resources map

  14:00 Tuesday 10th February ( week 4, Hilary Term 2015 ) in LTB

  Dr. Corina Forăscu ( "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi - Faculty of Computer Science & Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Drăgănescu” (RACAI) )
• 25Nov2014
  Motif discovery from 2D arrays and applications

  14:00 Tuesday 25th November ( week 7, Michaelmas Term 2014 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Simona Rombo ( Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, Italy )
• 30Oct2014
  Making Collective Wisdom Wiser

  14:00 30th October ( week 3, Michaelmas Term 2014 ) in LTA

  Prof. Tova Milo ( Tel Aviv University )
• 21Oct2014
  Reinforcement Learning: Turning Big Data into Actions

  14:00 Tuesday 21st October ( week 2, Michaelmas Term 2014 ) in LTB

  Doina Precup ( McGill University )
• 10Jun2014
  Persistence in Poor Estimating in Software Engineering: Whys and Hows

  11:00 Tuesday 10th June ( Trinity Term 2014 ) in Lecture Theatre B Wolfson Building

  Cigdem Gencel ( Faculty of Computer Science in Free University of Bozen-Bolzano )
• 2May2014
  Intelligent Systems and Learner Centred Design for Technology Enhanced Learning

  11:00 Friday 2nd May ( week 1, Trinity Term 2014 ) in Lecture Theatre B

  Dr. Rosella Gennari ( Free University of Bolzano )
• 4Dec2013
  Sensing everywhere: on quantitative verification for ubiquitous computing

  12:00 Wednesday 4th December ( Hilary Term 2014 ) in Lecture Theatre A

  Prof. Marta Kwiatkowska ( University of Oxford )