Welcome and Opening Remarks

A Google TechTalk, presented by Peter Kairouz, Marco Gruteser, & Ewa Dominowska, 2021/11/8 ABSTRACT: 2021 Workshop on Federated Learning Welcome and Opening remarks. About the speakers: Marco Gruteser is a Google researcher scientist. His recognitions include an NSF CAREER award, a Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, a Rutgers Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award, as well as best paper awards at ACM MobiCom 2012, ACM MobiCom 2011 and ACM MobiSys 2010. His work has been regularly featured in the media, including NPR, the New York Times, Fox News TV, and CNN TV. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. Peter Kairouz is a research scientist at Google, where he focuses on federated learning research and privacy-preserving technologies. Before joining Google, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Ewa Dominowska is an Engineering Director at Google. Prior to her role at Google, Ms. Dominowska worked at Facebook, Medio Systems, and Microsoft. Ewa earned her degrees in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and Mathematics from MIT. Her research focused on machine learning, natural language processing, and predictive, context aware systems applied in the medical field. Ewa authored several papers and dozens of patents in the areas of online advertising, search, pricing models, predictive algorithms and user interaction. For more information about the workshop: https://events.withgoogle.com/2021-workshop-on-federated-learning-and-analytics/#content