Ryan Knight

Head of Data & AI Practice, Insource Services, Inc.

Ryan Knight leads the Data & AI Practice at Insource Services, Inc, where he helps mission-driven organizations develop custom AI-driven software. Previously, Ryan founded EdLight, PBC , an education technology startup that helps teachers see and respond to student thinking.

Alice Ng

Consultant, Teaching Lab

Alice is a subject matter expert at Teaching Lab with seven years of experience teaching math from 5th grade through Algebra 1 in New York City. She currently serves as the Director of Upper School Math for grades 5-12 at Ascend Public Charter Schools.

Kyle Lo

Lead Scientist, Allen Institute for AI

Kyle is a Lead Scientist at the Allen Institute for AI. Kyle specializes in natural language processing, machine learning and human-AI interaction. Recent projects include the Semantic Scholar project and OLMo.

Lucy Li

PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley

Lucy is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research and the School of Information. Lucy’s research intersects natural language processing with computational sociolinguistics and cultural analytics. A significant segment of Lucy’s work emphasizes equity and fairness in AI.

Sami Baral

Phd Candidate, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Sami works in the ASSISTments lab at WPI, involving various projects to build better support for teachers to assess students’ work. Sami’s research revolves around organizing data of student responses to open-ended questions and building machine learning models utilizing natural language processing techniques to automatically assess and suggest feedback messages to teachers to give to their students. More recently, Sami has been analyzing and assessing students’ handwritten math work as images, applying computer vision and image processing methods.