Rumman Chowdhury

Rumman Chowdhury (born 1980) is a Bengali American data scientist and the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Lead at Accenture.

Rumman Chowdhury
Rumman Chowdhury at the AI for Good Global Summit 2018
Born1980 (age 39–40)
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Columbia University
University of California, San Diego (PhD)
AwardsBBC 100 Women (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsEthical Artificial Intelligence
InstitutionsAccenture
ThesisBeating Plowshares into Swords: The Impact of the Metropolitan-Military Complex (2017)
Doctoral advisorThaddeus Kousser
Steven Erie[1]
Websiterummanchowdhury.com

Education and early career

Chowdhury was born in Rockland County, New York.[2] Her parents are Bangladeshi immigrants. She enjoyed watching science fiction and attributes her curiosity about science to the Dana Scully effect.[3] She completed her undergraduate study in management science and political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] She joined Columbia University for her postgraduate study in statistics and quantitative methods.[3] She holds a doctorate in political science from University of California, San Diego.[2][1] She is interested in how data can be used to understand people's bias and ways to evaluate the impact of technology on humanity.[2] She finished her PhD whilst working in Silicon Valley.[4]

Career

Chowdhury taught data science at the boot camp Metis and worked at Quotient before joining Accenture in 2017.[2] She leads their work on responsible artificial intelligence.[2] She is concerned about the AI workforce; particularly on retaining researchers.[2] She is also concerned about algorithmic bias.[2] She has spoken openly about the need to define what ethical AI actually means.[5] She works with companies on developing ethical governance and algorithms that explain their decisions transparently.[6] She is determined to use AI to improve diversity in recruitment.[7] Chowdhury, alongside a team of early career researchers at the Alan Turing Institute, developed a Fairness Tool which scrutinises the data that is input to an algorithm and identifies whether certain genders (such as race or gender) may influence the outcome.[8] The tool both identifies and tries to fix bias, enabling organisations to make more fair decisions.[9] She designed All.ai, a language analysis tool that can monitor and improve the gender balance of speakers in meetings.[10]

She launched X Institute, a program which teaches refugees about data science and marketing.[2] She has given a keynote at Slush, talking about augmenting human capabilities.[11] She delivered a TED talk about humanity in the age of artificial intelligence.[11]

In 2017 she was included in the 100 Women (BBC).[12] She has written for Forbes and serves on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Wellbeing Metrics Standards for Ethical Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems working group.[13] She was part of Biz journals 40 Under 40.[4][14] She is a mentor of the Katapult accelerator in Norway. She is part of the All-party parliamentary group on Artificial Intelligence.[15]

gollark: How would those cause carbon dioxide production?
gollark: Also, yes, we have good knowledge of the mechanism.
gollark: Except seriously how would that even work.
gollark: Well, the alternative would be a third factor somehow causing temperature increases and carbon dioxide.
gollark: Er, other way round, I mean.

References
  1. Chowdhury, Rumman (2017). Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Impact of the Metropolitan-Military Complex. escholarship.org (PhD thesis). University of California, San Diego. OCLC 992172239.
  2. Apte, Poornima. "The Data Scientist Putting Ethics Into AI". OZY. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  3. "Rumman Chowdhury is California's Coolest Data Scientist". MM.LaFleur. 2017-01-13. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  4. "Meet the San Francisco Business Times' 40 under 40 Class of 2018 - Rumman Chowdhury". San Francisco Business Times. 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  5. Building Ethical & Responsible AI Technologies (Interview with Rumman Chowdhury of Accenture), retrieved 2018-11-21
  6. TOPBOTS: Applied AI For Business (2018-06-12), Building Ethical & Responsible AI Technologies (AI For Growth, Rumman Chowdhury, Accenture), retrieved 2018-11-20
  7. Welsh, John. "9 Developments In AI That You Really Need to Know". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  8. "CogX—Tackling The Challenge Of Ethics In AI | Accenture". www.accenture.com. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  9. "5 Q's for Rumman Chowdhury, Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture". Center for Data Innovation. 2018-08-17. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  10. Hinchliffe, Emma. "This app will help you speak up—or shut up—during meetings". Mashable. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  11. Slush (2017-12-07), Rumman Chowdhury: Augmenting Human Capabilities to New Dimensions, retrieved 2018-11-21
  12. "100 Women". BBC News. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  13. Chowdhury, Rumman. "Rumman Chowdhury". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  14. "40 Under 40 2018: Rumman Chowdhury, Accenture (Video)". San Francisco Business Times. 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  15. "Rumman Chowdhury - APPG". APPG. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
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