WiDS Datathon 2020
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Meredith Lee, Executive Director of West Big Data Innovation Hub, announces the winners of the WiDS Datathon 2020 at WiDS Stanford on March 2, 2020
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Chief Technical Advisor to the Associate Provost UC Berkeley Computing, Data Science, & Society
Meredith is the Chief Technical Advisor to the Associate Provost at UC Berkeley Computing, Data Science and Society. She was the Founding Executive Director of the West Big Data Innovation Hub, a venture launched with support from the National Science Foundation to build and strengthen partnerships across industry, academia, nonprofits, and government. Based at the University of California – Berkeley, Dr. Lee collaborates globally as part of a national network of Big Data Innovation Hubs to address scientific and societal challenges. Her work focuses on translational data science, including initiatives in Smart and Connected Communities, Water, Disaster Recovery, Health, and Education.
Meredith was previously a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, guiding strategic programs in graph analytics, risk assessment, machine learning, data visualization, and distributed computing.