Aleksandra Mojsilovic

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About Aleksandra Mojsilovic

Aleksandra (Saška) Mojsilović is a Senior Director at Google Research. Prior to joining Google, she was an IBM Fellow, where she led Foundations of Trustworthy Machine Intelligence at IBM Research, and served as a Co-Director of IBM Science for Social Good. Saška spent last two decades pursuing innovative applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and data science in real-world challenges, including IT operations, healthcare, multimedia, finance, insurance, HR, and economics. Her innovative use of decision-making algorithms in business applications and novel industry solutions have shaped the fields of business analytics and data science and have led to the creation of IBM's analytics businesses. She is one of the pioneers of the rising AI for Good movement. In 2015, with Kush Varshney she created Science for Social Good program in IBM Research, with a goal of directing the advancement of AI towards social and humanitarian challenges. Saška's current research is dedicated to developing foundational AI technologies for enabling trustworthy, responsible, and beneficial AI at scale, for IBM and its customers. She led the development of several leading open-source libraries and IBM products that support fair, explainable, robust, and transparent AI. For her contributions to IBM and the industry, Saška was appointed IBM Fellow, the company's highest technical honor. Saška is the author of over 100 publications and holds 20 patents. Her work has been recognized with multiple awards, including Harvard Kennedy School Tech Spotlight, Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, European Conference on Computer Vision Best Paper Award, INFORMS Wagner Prize, Computing Community Consortium and Schmidt Futures AI for Good Award, IBM Extraordinary Accomplishment Award, and IBM Gerstner Prize. In 2020, she was named Datanami Person to Watch, and was included in Top 50 Women in AI Ethics. Saška serves on the board of directors for Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners, which provides financial literacy and economic empowerment training to low-income individuals. She is a Fellow of the and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Specialties: Business Analytics, People Analytics, Healthcare Analytics, Data Science, Enterprise AI, AI for Good, AI Ethics, Machine Learning, AI in Financial Services