Program

Invited Speakers

Noa Garcia

Noa Garcia

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Noa Garcia is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Co-Creation Studies, Osaka University, Japan. Originally from Barcelona, she moved to Japan in 2018, first as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a specially-appointed assistant professor at the Institute for Datability Science. She completed her Ph.D in multimodal retrieval and instance-level recognition at Aston University, United Kingdom, after earning her degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Her current research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision, natural language processing, fairness, and art. She is an active member of the computer vision community, having co-organized several workshops and international events, and regularly publishes at conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, or NeurIPS.

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Nikki Popee

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Nikki Pope (she/her) is the head of AI and Legal Ethics at NVIDIA. In this role, Nikki works closely with business units and product teams to integrate NVIDIA's Trustworthy AI Principles into the company's AI models and systems. Nikki is an advocate for the wrongfully convicted. She co-authored "Pruno, Ramen, and a Side of Hope: Stories of Surviving Wrongful Conviction" and co-founded The Pruno Fund, a nonprofit organization that helps exonerated people after their release from prison. Although she was a bit of a nomad in the past, Nikki has spent nearly two decades living in Silicon Valley. She earned a BA in economics, an MBA in marketing and management, a JD, and an LLM in intellectual property law.

Schedule

The workshop will feature 8 oral presentations and 15 poster presentations. All times are in Hawaii Standard Time (HST).

08:00 AM Welcome & Introduction
08:15 AM Keynote 1: User-Centered AI Design
Speaker: Noa Garcia
09:00 AM Paper Presentations Session 1
Presentation or pre-recorded videos with live Q&A
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:15 AM Keynote 2: Ethical AI in Image Generation
Speaker: Nikki Pope
11:00 AM Paper Presentations Session 2
Presentation or pre-recorded videos with live Q&A
12:00 PM Poster Session
15 poster presentations with interactive discussions

Presentation Details