Keynote Presentation III: Fernanda Viegas

Fernanda Viégas co-leads Google’s PAIR (People+AI Research) initiative, part of Google Brain. Her work in machine learning, with long-time collaborator Martin Wattenberg, focuses on improving human/AI interaction with a broader agenda of democratizing AI technology. She is well known for her contributions to social and collaborative visualization, and the systems she and her team have created are used daily by millions of people. Her visualization-based artwork with Wattenberg has been exhibited worldwide, and is part of the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art in New York. Fernanda holds a PhD from the MIT Media Lab.