Eyes on Innovation
This panel will discuss the relationship between artificial intelligence and company responsibility, including the impact that increased responsibility could have on startups.
Panel Moderator
Stephanie Onyekwere
Stephanie Onyekwere is a technology transactions associate at Cooley LLP and participates in the representation of clients ranging from startups to more established companies that are in a variety of industries including artificial intelligence, digital and social media, entertainment, and retail. Stephanie assists her clients in matters relating to the licensing, acquisition, development, sale, use, and commercial exploitation of intellectual property and technology, and advises on product area issues such as open-source and data security and privacy compliance.
Prior to Cooley, Stephanie worked in the IP transactions group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges where she advised on intellectual property and technology issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions. Stephanie attended Vanderbilt Law School and the University of Texas at Austin and is currently located in Silicon Valley.
Panelists
Tina Eliasi-Rad
Tina Eliassi-Rad is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. She is also a core faculty member at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute. Prior to joining Northeastern, Tina was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University; and before that, she was a Member of Technical Staff and Principal Investigator at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Tina earned her Ph.D. in Computer Sciences (with a minor in Mathematical Statistics) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research is rooted in data mining and machine learning; and spans theory, algorithms, and applications of big data from networked representations of physical and social phenomena. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications (including a few best paper and best paper runner-up awardees) and has given over 200 invited talks and 14 tutorials.
Tina’s work has been applied to personalized search on the World-Wide Web, statistical indices of large-scale scientific simulation data, fraud detection, mobile ad targeting, cyber situational awareness, and ethics in machine learning. Her algorithms have been incorporated into systems used by the government and industry (e.g., IBM System G Graph Analytics) as well as open-source software (e.g., Stanford Network Analysis Project). In 2017, she served as the program co-chair for the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (a.k.a. KDD, which is the premier conference on data mining) and as the program co-chair for the International Conference on Network Science (a.k.a. NetSci, which is the premier conference on network science). In 2010, she received an Outstanding Mentor Award from the Office of Science at the US Department of Energy. In 2019, she became a Fellow of the ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy.
Roger Ford
Professor Roger Ford is a Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, Faculty Fellow at the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property, and Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Ford teaches and writes about privacy, intellectual property, and other ways the law regulates technology and information.
Before coming to New Hampshire, he was a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School and the inaugural Microsoft Research Fellow at NYU School of Law’s Information Law Institute. From 2005 to 2011, Ford practiced law at Covington & Burling in Washington DC and clerked for Frank Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. While at Covington he also taught federal courts as an adjunct professor at George Mason University. Ford studied law at Chicago and chemistry at MIT.
Peter K. Yu (余家明)
Peter K. You is Professor of Law, Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University. He previously held the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Drake University Law School and was Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. He served as a visiting professor of law at Bocconi University, Hanken School of Economics, Hokkaido University, the University of Haifa, the University of Helsinki, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Strasbourg and Washington and Lee University. He also founded the nationally renowned Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University, at which he held faculty appointments in law, communication arts and sciences, and Asian studies.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu is a leading expert in international intellectual property and communications law. He also writes and lectures extensively on international trade, international and comparative law, and the transition of the legal systems in China and Hong Kong. A prolific scholar and an award-winning teacher, he is the author or editor of seven books and more than 150 law review articles and book chapters. He is the Co-Director of Studies of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served as the general editor of The WIPO Journal published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Professor Yu has spoken at events organized by WIPO, the World Trade Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Chinese, EU and U.S. governments and at leading research institutions from around the world. His lectures and presentations have spanned over 30 countries on six continents. He is a frequent commentator in the national and international media. His publications have appeared in Chinese and English and have been translated into Arabic, French, Hausa, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese. They are available on his website at www.peteryu.com.