Aleksandra (Saška) Mojsilović (born 1968) is a Serbian-American scientist. Her research interests are

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

data science Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from potentially noisy, stru ...

, and

signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, Scalar potential, potential fields, Seismic tomograph ...

. She is known for innovative applications of

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

to diverse societal and business problems. Her current research focuses on issues of fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in AI. She is an

IBM Fellow An IBM Fellow is a position at IBM appointed by the CEO. Typically only four to nine (eleven in 2014) IBM Fellows are appointed each year, in May or June. Fellow is the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. Over ...

and

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...

Fellow.

Education and career

Mojsilović was born in

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. She received her PhD in

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

in 1997 from the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...

, Belgrade, Serbia. From 1997 to 1998, she was an assistant professor at the University of Belgrade. From 1998 to 2000, she was a Member of Technical Staff at the

Bell Laboratories Nokia Bell Labs, commonly referred to as ''Bell Labs'', is an American industrial research and development company owned by Finnish technology company Nokia. With headquarters located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, the company operates several lab ...

, Murray Hill, New Jersey. She was at

IBM Research IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American Multinational corporation, multinational information technology company. IBM Research is headquartered at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York ...

from 2000 to 2023. She is currently employed at Google as their senior director, Responsible AI. Prior to joining Google, she led Trustworthy AI at

and served as a co-director of IBM Science for Social Good.

Research

Mojsilović's research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, multi-dimensional signal processing, and data science. She has applied her expertise to diverse application areas, including computer vision, multimedia, recommender systems, medical diagnostics, healthcare, IT operations, business analytics, workforce analytics, drug discovery, disease ecology, and most recently, COVID-19 response. A substantial part of her research is focused on development of ethical, responsible, and beneficial AI systems. In 2015, with Kush Varshney, she created IBM Science for Social Good initiative as a way to promote and direct AI research and development towards applications that benefit humanity. She was among the first researchers to call for transparent reporting on the development and deployment of AI models and systems. While at

she helped create leading open source and product capabilities in support of fair, explainable, robust, transparent, and responsible AI. Most notable contributions include: AI Fairness 360, a toolkit for mitigating bias in machine learning models, AI Explainability 360, a toolkit for supporting explanations in AI models, and AI FactSheets 360, an open research effort to foster trust in AI by increasing transparency and enabling governance.

Awards and recognition

*IEEE Young Author Best Paper Award (2001) *

European Conference on Computer Vision The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) is a biennial research conference with the proceedings published by Springer Science+Business Media. Similar to ICCV in scope and quality, it is held those years which ICCV is not. It is consider ...

Best Paper Award (2002) *Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research (2010) *

(2014) *

Fellow (2017) * Computing Community Consortium and Schmidt Futures AI for Good Award (2019) *Belfer Center's Technology and Public Purpose Project Spotlights Outstanding Technologies for Public Good (2020) *100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics (2020) *Tech Spotlight (2021)

Personal

Mojsilović is the creator of the award-winning food blog Three Little Halves, which blends her love of food, photography, and writing. She was nominated for the

James Beard Award The James Beard Foundation Awards are annual awards presented by the James Beard Foundation to recognize chefs, restaurateurs, authors and journalists in the United States. They are scheduled around James Beard's May 5 birthday. The media awar ...

and received the International Association of Culinary Professionals Award. Mojsilović serves on the Board of Directors of Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners, which provides financial literacy and economic empowerment training to low-income individuals. She lives in

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

with her husband and daughter.

References

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