How has artificial intelligence impacted marginalized populations? Listen and have a conversation about “Artificial Intelligence from Different Lenses” through the Cornell Bowers CIS Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion event, JEDI Dialogues. Join us via Zoom to hear from Dr. Bikalpa Neupane, past Technology for Social Impact fellow and current Artificial Intelligence (AI) Digital Program Director at Takeda, about his experience and research on AI discrimination against marginalized populations.

All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend! Register in advance here (Zoom link will be shared via email). Please read on for more information about our guest speaker, Dr. Neupane.

Dr. Bikalpa Neupane is the Director of AI Digital Program at Takeda, a multinational Pharmaceuticals where he is responsible to develop, integrate and test end-to-end conversational AI and NLP components as a part of AI Companion project within the core Enterprise Digital Unit. Previously, Dr. Neupane led Natural Language Understanding product groups at IBM Watson. Dr. Neupane holds a PhD in Informatics from the Penn State - main campus and undergraduate degrees from Brigham Young University, Utah. He was a recipient of 'Technology for Social Impact' fellow at Cornell University 2018, United Nations Young Leader 2017, and Australian Endeavor fellowship. Dr. Neupane's dissertation explored the issues of AI justice and equity among underprivileged and marginalized communities. In this talk, he will share his experience and scientific findings regarding AI discrimination. Dr. Neupane is also the founder of Human-Computer Interaction Institute of Nepal and an educational startup, omviser. He can be reached thorough his twitter: @BikalpaN