Patrick Hall is principal scientist at BNH.AI, where he advises Fortune 500 companies and cutting-edge startups on AI risk and conducts research in support of NIST's AI risk management framework. He also serves as visiting faculty in the Department of Decision Sciences at The George Washington School of Business, teaching data ethics, business analytics, and machine learning classes.
Before cofounding BNH, Patrick led H2O.ai's efforts in responsible AI, resulting in one of the world's first commercial applications for explainability and bias mitigation in machine learning. He also held global customer-facing roles and R&D research roles at SAS Institute. Patrick studied computational chemistry at the University of Illinois before graduating from the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University.
Patrick has been invited to speak on topics relating to explainable AI at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, ACM SIG-KDD, and the Joint Statistical Meetings. He has contributed written pieces to outlets like McKinsey.com, O'Reilly Radar, and Thompson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence, and his technical work has been profiled in Fortune, Wired, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, and others.
James Curtis is a quantitative researcher at Solea Energy, where he is focused on using statistical forecasting to further the decarbonization of the US power grid. He previously served as a consultant for financial services organizations, insurers, regulators, and health care providers to help build more equitable AI/ML models. James holds an MS in Mathematics from the Colorado School of Mines.
Parul Pandey has a background in Electrical Engineering and currently works as a Principal Data Scientist at H2O.ai. Prior to this, she was working as a Machine Learning Engineer at Weights & Biases. She is also a Kaggle Grandmaster in the notebooks category and was one of Linkedin’s Top Voices in the Software Development category in 2019. Parul has written multiple articles focused on Data Science and Software development for various publications and mentors, speaks, and delivers workshops on topics related to Responsible AI.