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Women from across the US, Mexico and Canada came together virtually for the Women in AI Awards North America. The award festivities took place on May 13, 2022 and honored female pioneers who are paving new ways in the world of artificial intelligence (AI).

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The Women in AI North America Winners & Runner Up by categories are: 

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• Outstanding in AI - Young Role Model of the Year 

  • Jigyasa Grover, Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter

  • Charmi Chokshi, Research Engineer at Amazon Web Services, Graduate student at Mila

  • Finalists:

    • Chloe Autio, Advisor and Senior Manager, The Cantellus Group

    • Rachel Sterneck, Student Researcher, Interactive Machine Group, Yale University

    • Gabrielle Hurtubise-Radet,Startup Programs Lead at Mila

• AI in Startup - AI Entrepreneur of the Year

  • Mahla Mirali, Founder at Grain Data Solutions Inc.

  • Sarah Lambert, Co-Founder & CEO at Ora Medical

  • Finalists:

    • Navrina Singh Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Credo AI

    • Amanda Truscott, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Rithmik Solutions

    • Cristina Campero Peredo, Chief Executive Officer at PROSPERiA

• AI for Good - Responsible AI Leader of the Year

  • Wendy Gonzalez, Chief Executive Officer at Sama

  • Merve Hickok, Research Director at Center for AI & Digital Policy, Founder at AIethicist.org

  • Finalists:

    • Jacquilene Jacob, AI & Computer Vision Lead, SimpliSafe

    • Sonal Kalbande, MSBA, Senior Data Engineer and Manager, EyeTech Digital Systems

    • Isabelle Bichler-Eliasaf, Co-Founder and COO at retrain.ai

• AI for Good - ESG AI Leader of the Year

  • Leslie Canavera, CEO at PolArctic LLC

  • Erin Michelson, CEO and Founder, Summery

  • Finalists:

    • Elham Kheradmand, Lead AI Scientist - Research and Development, Clearsum

    • Smita Challu Tulsani, Director, Direct Response & Innovation, Canadian Cancer Society

    • Lucía Tróchez Ardila, Brand Director, Executive Programs Director, C Minds

• AI for Good - DEI AI Leader of the Year

  • Jutta Treviranus, Director and Professor at Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University

  • Allison Cohen, Applied AI Project Lead, AI for Humanity, Mila

  • Finalists:

    • Cristina Martinez Pinto, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at PIT Policy Lab

    • Liliana Millán Núñez, Data Scientist, Director at Centro de Ciencia de Datos, Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública

    • Annie Veillet, Partner - National Data & Advanced Analytics Lead, PwC Canada

• AI in Research - AI Researcher of the Year

  • Animashree Anandkumar, Bren chair professor at Caltech and Director, ML Research at NVIDIA

  • Alona Fyshe, Assistant Professor of Computing Science, and Fellow of Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute

  • Finalists:

    • Saiph Savage, Assistant Professor, Notheastern University

    • Maria Glenski, Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

    • Furong Huang, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College Park

• AI in Government - AI Disruptor of the Year

  • Yunive Moreno, Liaison director, Coordinación General de Innovación Gubernamental, Jalisco

  •  Jennifer Glenski , AI and Machine Learning Practice Lead

  • Finalists:

    • Elizabeth M. Daitz, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Suffolk County

    • Sherry Bennett, Chief Data Scientist, DLT Solutions

    • Phenesia Eusebio, Principal System Engineer at TransTechSol, LLC

• AI in Industry - AI Innovator of the Year 

  • Rama K Akkiraju, IBM Fellow, CTO AI Ops, Master Inventor at IBM Automation

  • Raquel Urtasun, Founder and CEO at Waabi

  • Finalists:

    • Melinda Han Williams, Chief Data Scientist, Dstillery

    • Eniko Rozsa, Distinguished Engineer, Global CTO for AI Practice, IBM Consulting Services

    • Punitee Garyali M.D., Ph.D. Physician Scientist, AI Talos

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SPECIAL JURY RECOGNITION - MEXICO

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• Lucía Tróchez Ardila, Program Director at C Minds

• Saiph Savage, Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and research collaborator at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)

• Claudia May Del Pozo, Executive Director of the Eon Resilience Lab at C Minds

• Cristina Elena Martinez Pinto, Founder and CEO at PIT Policy Lab

• Liliana Millán Núñez, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

 

SPECIAL JURY RECOGNITION - CANADA

 

• Eleni Stroulia , Professor, Faculty of Science Acting Vice Dean, University of Alberta

• AI4Society Signature Area Director

• Enikő Rózsa, a Distinguished Engineer, CTO for the Global AI Practice of IBM Consulting

• Nicole Janssen, Co‐founder and Co‐CEO of AltaML

• Taoli Cheng, Postdoctoral researcher at Mila and the University of Montreal.

• Ivey Chiu - Engineering Program Manager - AI & Special Projects,TELUS

 

 

SPECIAL JURY RECOGNITION - USA

 

• Lauren Decker, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of PolArctic

• Jacquilene Jacob - Engineering Manager and AI Lead at SimpliSafe

• Phenesia Eusebio - Principal Systems Engineer at TransTechSol, LLC

• Rachel Azafrani,Senior Program Manager, Office of Responsible AI at Microsoft

• Furong Huang, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland

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We congratulate all the nominees, finalists, runner ups and winners of all categories and we thank you for all your contributions to Artificial Intelligence. 

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