Aleksandra Mojsilovic Explained

Aleksandra Mojsilovic
Birth Place:Belgrade, Serbia
Education:University of Belgrade
Employer:IBM Research
Known For:Multidimensional signal processing, computer vision, AI for social good, AI ethics

Aleksandra (Saška) Mojsilović (born 1968) is a Serbian-American scientist. Her research interests are artificial intelligence, data science, and signal processing. She is known for innovative applications of machine learning 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[1] and IEEE Fellow.[2]

Education and career

Mojsilović was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1997 from the University of Belgrade, 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, Murray Hill, New Jersey. She was at IBM Research from 2000 to 2023. She is currently employed at Google as their Senior Director, Responsible AI. [3] Prior to joining Google, she led Trustworthy AI at IBM Research and served as a co-director of IBM Science for Social Good.[4]

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,[5] [6] [7] multimedia,[8] recommender systems,[9] medical diagnostics,[10] [11] healthcare, IT operations,[12] business analytics,[13] workforce analytics,[14] drug discovery,[15] disease ecology,[16] and most recently, COVID-19 response.[17] [18] 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.[19] [20] She was among the first researchers to call for transparent reporting on the development and deployment of AI models and systems.[21] [22]

While at IBM Research she helped create leading open source[23] [24] [25] and product capabilities[26] [27] [28] [29] in support of fair, explainable, robust, transparent, and responsible AI. Most notable contributions include: AI Fairness 360,[30] a toolkit for mitigating bias in machine learning models, AI Explainability 360,[31] a toolkit for supporting explanations in AI models, and AI FactSheets 360,[32] an open research effort to foster trust in AI by increasing transparency and enabling governance.

Awards and recognition

Personal

Mojsilović is the creator of the award-winning food blog Three Little Halves, which blends her love of food, photography, and writing.[42] She was nominated for the James Beard Award[43] and received the International Association of Culinary Professionals Award.[44]

Mojsilović serves on the Board of Directors of Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners, which provides financial literacy and economic empowerment training to low-income individuals.[45]

She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2012-01-30. IBM - IBM Fellows. 2021-11-28. www.ibm.com. en-US.
  2. Web site: IEEE Fellows Directory - Member Profile. 2021-11-28. IEEE.
  3. Web site: 2016-07-25. Aleksandra Mojsilovic - IBM. 2020-11-27. researcher.watson.ibm.com. en-US.
  4. Web site: 2016-07-25 . Aleksandra Mojsilovic - IBM . 2021-11-28 . researcher.watson.ibm.com . en-US.
  5. Book: Mojsilovic. A.. Rogowitz. B.. Proceedings 2001 International Conference on Image Processing (Cat. No.01CH37205) . Capturing image semantics with low-level descriptors . October 2001. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/958942. 1. 18–21 vol.1. 10.1109/ICIP.2001.958942. 0-7803-6725-1. 17502035.
  6. Mojsilovic. A.. Popovic. M. V.. Rackov. D. M.. December 2000. On the selection of an optimal wavelet basis for texture characterization. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 9. 12. 2043–2050. 10.1109/83.887972. 1941-0042. 18262942. 2000ITIP....9.2043R.
  7. Junqing Chen. Pappas. T. N.. Mojsilovic. A.. Rogowitz. B. E.. October 2005. Adaptive perceptual color-texture image segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 14. 10. 1524–1536. 10.1109/TIP.2005.852204. 1941-0042. 16238058. 2005ITIP...14.1524C. 7832450.
  8. Mojsilovic. A.. Kovacevic. J.. Jianying Hu. Safranek. R. J.. Ganapathy. S. K.. January 2000. Matching and retrieval based on the vocabulary and grammar of color patterns. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 9. 1. 38–54. 10.1109/83.817597. 1941-0042. 18255371. 2000ITIP....9...38M.
  9. Varshney. Kush. Wang. Jun. Mojsilović. Aleksandra. Fang. Dongping. Bauer. John. 2013. Predicting and Recommending Skills in the Social Enterprise. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. en. 7. 3. 20–23. 10.1609/icwsm.v7i3.14474 . 14674178 . 2334-0770. free.
  10. Mojsilović. Aleksandra. Popović. Miodrag. Amodaj. Nenad. Babić. Rade. Ostojić. Miodrag. 1997-11-01. Automatic segmentation of intravascular ultrasound images: A texture-based approach. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. en. 25. 6. 1059–1071. 10.1007/BF02648131. 9395051. 29548231. 1573-9686.
  11. Nesković. Aleksandar N.. Mojsilović. Aleksandra. Jovanović. Tomislav. Vasiljević. Jovan. Popović. Miodrag. Marinković. Jelena. Bojić. Milovan. Popović. Aleksandar D.. 1998-08-18. Myocardial Tissue Characterization After Acute Myocardial Infarction With Wavelet Image Decomposition. Circulation. 98. 7. 634–641. 10.1161/01.CIR.98.7.634. 9715855. free.
  12. Mojsilović. Aleksandra. Ray. Bonnie. Lawrence. Richard. Takriti. Samer. 2007-12-01. A logistic regression framework for information technology outsourcing lifecycle management. Computers & Operations Research. Operations Research and Outsourcing. en. 34. 12. 3609–3627. 10.1016/j.cor.2006.01.018. 0305-0548.
  13. Varshney. Kush. Mojsilović. Aleksandra. September 2011. Business Analytics Based on Financial Time Series. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 28. 5. 83–93. 10.1109/msp.2011.941554. 2011ISPM...28...83V. 7934412. 1053-5888.
  14. Web site: IEEE VIS 2013. 2020-11-27. ieeevis.org. en.
  15. Das. Payel. Sercu. Tom. Wadhawan. Kahini. Padhi. Inkit. Gehrmann. Sebastian. Cipcigan. Flaviu. Chenthamarakshan. Vijil. Strobelt. Hendrik. dos Santos. Cicero. Chen. Pin-Yu. Yang. Yi Yan. June 2021. Accelerated antimicrobial discovery via deep generative models and molecular dynamics simulations. Nature Biomedical Engineering. en. 5. 6. 613–623. 10.1038/s41551-021-00689-x . 2005.11248. 33707779. 232209306. 2157-846X.
  16. Han. Barbara A.. Majumdar. Subhabrata. Calmon. Flavio P.. Glicksberg. Benjamin S.. Horesh. Raya. Kumar. Abhishek. Perer. Adam. von Marschall. Elisa B.. Wei. Dennis. Mojsilović. Aleksandra. Varshney. Kush R.. 2019-06-01. Confronting data sparsity to identify potential sources of Zika virus spillover infection among primates. Epidemics. en. 27. 59–65. 10.1016/j.epidem.2019.01.005. 30902616. 85456711. 1755-4365. free.
  17. Web site: CogMol: Target-Specific and Selective Drug Design for COVID-19 Using Deep Generative Models - AMiner. 2020-11-27. www.aminer.org.
  18. Web site: Accelerate discovery. 2021-11-28. covid19-mol.mybluemix.net. en.
  19. Web site: 2016-01-21. Data science for a better world. 2021-11-28. IBM Research Blog. en-US.
  20. Web site: casper. Network Spotlight: Kush Varshney and Aleksandra Mojsilović, IBM. 2021-11-28. LAUNCH. en-US.
  21. Arnold. Matthew. Bellamy. Rachel K. E.. Hind. Michael. Houde. Stephanie. Mehta. Sameep. Mojsilovic. Aleksandra. Nair. Ravi. Ramamurthy. Karthikeyan Natesan. Reimer. Darrell. Olteanu. Alexandra. Piorkowski. David. 2018-08-22. FactSheets: Increasing Trust in AI Services through Supplier's Declarations of Conformity. cs.CY. 1808.07261.
  22. Web site: 2018-10-07. We need to build AI systems we can trust. 2021-11-28. Qrius. en-GB.
  23. Web site: AI Fairness 360. 2021-11-28. aif360.mybluemix.net. 2022-06-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20220629170411/https://aif360.mybluemix.net/. dead.
  24. Web site: AI Explainability 360. 2021-11-28. aix360.mybluemix.net.
  25. Web site: Uncertainty Quantification 360. 2021-11-28. uq360.mybluemix.net.
  26. Web site: 2018-09-19. IBM announces cloud service to help businesses detect and mitigate AI bias. 2021-11-28. VentureBeat. en-US.
  27. Web site: 2018-09-19. Trust and Transparency for AI on the IBM Cloud - IBM Research. 2021-11-28. IBM Research Blog. en-US.
  28. Web site: Proffitt. Allison. 2021-01-07. IBM Advances Watson Family Including AI FactSheets at AI Summit. 2021-11-28. AI Trends. en-US.
  29. News: 2018-09-19. IBM launches tool aimed at detecting AI bias. en-GB. BBC News. 2021-11-28.
  30. Bellamy. Rachel K. E.. Dey. Kuntal. Hind. Michael. Hoffman. Samuel C.. Houde. Stephanie. Kannan. Kalapriya. Lohia. Pranay. Martino. Jacquelyn. Mehta. Sameep. Mojsilovic. Aleksandra. Nagar. Seema. 2018-10-03. AI Fairness 360: An Extensible Toolkit for Detecting, Understanding, and Mitigating Unwanted Algorithmic Bias. cs.AI. 1810.01943.
  31. Arya. Vijay. Bellamy. Rachel K. E.. Chen. Pin-Yu. Dhurandhar. Amit. Hind. Michael. Hoffman. Samuel C.. Houde. Stephanie. Liao. Q. Vera. Luss. Ronny. Mojsilović. Aleksandra. Mourad. Sami. 2019-09-14. One Explanation Does Not Fit All: A Toolkit and Taxonomy of AI Explainability Techniques. cs.AI. 1909.03012.
  32. Web site: AI FactSheets 360. 2021-11-28. aifs360.mybluemix.net.
  33. Web site: The IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award IEEE Communications Society. 2020-11-27. www.comsoc.org.
  34. Web site: ICCV, ECCV and CVPR Best Paper Awards. 2021-11-28. personalpages.manchester.ac.uk.
  35. Web site: INFORMS. Aleksandra Mojsilovic. 2021-11-28. INFORMS. en-US.
  36. Web site: 2017-04-13. IBM Fellows - United States. 2021-11-28. www.ibm.com. en-US.
  37. March 2017. SPS Fellows and Award Winners Recognized [Society News]]. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 34. 2. 7–10. 10.1109/MSP.2016.2642407. 2017ISPM...34....7.. 1558-0792.
  38. Web site: 2019-09-18. CS for Social Good Award Announcement! » CCC Blog. 2021-11-28. en-US.
  39. Web site: Belfer Center's Technology and Public Purpose Project Spotlights Outstanding Technologies for Public Good. 2021-11-28. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. en.
  40. Web site: 2020. 2021-11-28. 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™. en-US.
  41. Web site: Tech Spotlight. 2021-11-28. hks-spotlight.netlify.app. en.
  42. Web site: Aleksandra Mojsilovic. 2021-11-29. Compass Talent. en-US.
  43. Web site: The Complete 2015 JBF Award Nominees James Beard Foundation. 2021-11-29. www.jamesbeard.org. en.
  44. Web site: Galarza. Daniela. 2016-04-04. IACP Announces Cookbook, Food Writing, Photography, and Blog Winners for 2016. 2021-11-29. Eater. en.
  45. Web site: Siroc. Alexis. Our Team. 2021-11-29. Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners. en-US.

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