Dr. RUMMAN CHOWDHURY Director of ML Ethics, Transparency & Accountability Twitter Dr. Rumman Chowdhurys passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She is a pioneer in the field of applied algorithmic ethics, creating cutting-edge enterprise technical solutions for ethical, explainable and transparent AI since 2017. She is currently the Director of the META (ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability) team at Twitter as well as GP of a venture capital fund, Parity Responsible Innovation Fund, that invests in early-stage responsible technology startups. She was previously CEO and founder of Parity AI, an enterprise algorithmic audit platform company and formerly served as Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence. Rumman has been featured in international media, including the the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, NPR, MIT Sloan Magazine, MIT Technology Review, BBC, Axios, Cheddar TV, CRN, The Verge, Fast Company, Quartz, Corrierre Della Serra, Optio, Australian Broadcasting Channel and Nikkei Business Times. She has been recognized as one of BBCs 100 Women, Bay Areas top 40 under 40, and honoured to be inducted to the British Royal Society of the Arts (RSA). She has also been named by Forbes as one of Five Who are Shaping AI. As service to the field and the larger community, she serves on the board of Oxford Universitys Commission on AI and Governance, the University of Virginias Data Science Program, and Patterns, a data science journal by the publishers of Cell. Dr. Chowdhury holds two undergraduate degrees from MIT, a masters degree in Quantitative Methods of the Social Sciences from Columbia University, and a doctorate in political science from the University of California, San Diego. You can follow her on Twitter @ruhowdh