CODE:SWITCH speaker series presents A virtual keynote with WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION  Author Cathy O’Neil  on February 23, 2022

Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team for this virtual  event  featuring Cathy O’Neil.  O’Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard and worked as a math professor at Barnard College before switching over to the private sector, working as a quant for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw and as a data scientist in the New York start-up scene. She is a regular contributor to Bloomberg Opinion and in 2016 wrote the book Weapons of Math Destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy. She is the CEO of ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company, is a member of the Public Interest Tech Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her new book The Shame Machine: who profits in the new age of humiliation is coming out in March 2022.

This event is co-sponsored by DataIku, the ASSETT Innovation Incubator,  and the CU Boulder Department of English.

CODE:SWITCH speaker series presents A virtual keynote with WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION  Author Cathy O’Neil  on February 23, 2022

Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team for this virtual  event  featuring Cathy O’Neil.  O’Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard and worked as a math professor at Barnard College before switching over to the private sector, working as a quant for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw and as a data scientist in the New York start-up scene. She is a regular contributor to Bloomberg Opinion and in 2016 wrote the book Weapons of Math Destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy. She is the CEO of ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company, is a member of the Public Interest Tech Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her new book The Shame Machine: who profits in the new age of humiliation is coming out in March 2022.

This event is co-sponsored by DataIku, the ASSETT Innovation Incubator,  and the CU Boulder Department of English.