Industry Leader in Signal Processing and Machine Learning

Dr. Celia Cintas is a Research Scientist at IBM Research Africa - Nairobi. She is a member of the AI Science team at the Kenya Lab. Her current research focuses on the improvement of ML techniques to address challenges on Global Health in developing countries and exploring subset scanning for anomaly detection under generative models.

Midia Yousefi is a distinguished Senior Research Scientist within the Cloud and AI division at Microsoft, where she is actively engaged in a spectrum of research initiatives pertaining to audio and speech technologies.

Mehrnaz Shokrollahi is passionate about technology and AI, with a special focus on championing women in these fields. Currently, she serves as the Director of Data Science & Advanced Analytics at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).