Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻

Intersectional/Interdisciplinary ML research @datascicolumbia. Physics PhD. Passionate about responsible, empowering, ethical tech. Always stay humble and kind.

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

Just wrapped teaching my first semester of AI Ethics! My first full semester course and entirely designed from scratch…I’ll have many more thoughts to share but for now very thankful to my students for their engagement and willingness to think across disciplines 1/

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

@sarahookr We were just talking about similar things in the RegML workshop today. Definitely interested!

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

Also can’t wait for @willie_agnew co-design workshop!

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

Happy to be in my favorite space at NeurIPS! To me, AI is political and my queerness is political and @QueerinAI holds space for me to embrace that rather than trying to suppress it. Beautiful discussions about community building in research and the world.

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

I wish I had been in this room (or actually out as queer) in grad school. This space is an absolute treasure 💕

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

Super excited for this panel discussion on one of my favorite topics: the role of world models in building AI (especially AI for science)!

[Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations @neur_reps]

Ready for #NeurReps2024?

Our schedule at @NeurIPSConf is out 📅
https://t.co/Q27Oic2BVC

Join us this Saturday! 🧠

With @EeroSimoncelli @talia_konkle @StefanieJegelka @srinituraga Ilker Yildirim and @BasicScienceSav

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

I’m heading to Vancouver for NeurIPS! I’ll be speaking at the ML4PS workshop, the Regulatable ML workshop, and the Symmetry and Geometry workshop! Will share more details but my favorite part is always chatting with folks so please hmu if you’d like to grab coffee or a drink!

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

@sarahookr @NeurIPSConf Looking forward to it :)

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

@Abebab Congratulations!! I can’t wait to see the excellent work to come

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

@BlancheMinerva @Columbia @mozilla Ooh this looks awesome! Who from Columbia are you collaborating with?

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

https://t.co/5tFtejAGoV

Sidenote, if you're around MIT I'd love to chat! 2/2

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

Next up, this afternoon I'll be on a panel "AI for All: Advancing Responsibility, Fairness, & Queer Representation in Technology" at @Hunter_College , hosted by my friend/colleague Raj Korpan. Such an important topic as building truly useful & trustworthy AI takes everyone!

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

(including Secretary @HillaryClinton and Governor @KathyHochul!). https://t.co/t2E0wEFzpC

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

actionable cybersecurity recommendations. Much of this work is led by my amazing students Selena Ding and Keri Yu. In addition to presenting our research, I'm very excited to discuss the way AI is reshaping the cyber threat landscape with so many public policy experts 2/

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

I'm speaking at three very exciting events this week! First up today, the Columbia and New York State Conference on Cyber Regulation and Harmonization at Columbia | SIPA. I'll be presenting our research using customized AI models to identify, extract, and categorize 1/

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

I’m at my first @AIESConf! Presenting my paper on AI Hype tonight. Hit me up if you’re around!

[The Data Science Institute at Columbia University @DataSciColumbia]

AI is unpredictable. Can physics make it trustworthy? Read our Q&A with
@DataSciColumbia
’s Savannah Thais: https://t.co/zek8qsz5aU #AI #DataForGood #Ethics

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

I'm thankful to have been working and learning in this rich interdisciplinary space for nearly a decade now and so excited to see how in continues to grow with increased education opportunities and industrial and governmental investment 7/7

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

Leaning into the Nobel Prize excitement, I'm very excited to share my new piece in Nature Reviews Physics @NatRevPhys exploring how physics data and approaches can help us develop more trustworthy AI (read for free here!) https://t.co/L6gP7spVpY 1/

[Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻 @BasicScienceSav]

While of course trustworthy AI is ultimately a sociotechnical problem and science cannot get us all the way there, I fundamentally believe that science has a critical role to play. 6/