I share below a list of some of the innovators I meet. Keep an eye on them!
*Setor Zilevu (Meta and Virginia Tech). Working at the intersection of human-computer interaction and machine learning to create semi-automated, in-home therapy for stroke patients. After his father suffered a stroke, Zilevu wanted to understand how to integrate those two fields in a way that would enable patients at home to get the same type of therapy, including high-quality feedback, that they might get in a hospital. The semi-automated human-computer interaction, which Zilevu calls the “tacit computable empower” method, can be applied to other domains both within and outside health care, he says.
Sarah B. Nelson is Chief Design Officer and Distinguished Designer for Kyndryl Vital, Kyndryl’s designer-led co-creation experience. From the emergence of the web through the maturity of user experience practice, Sarah is known throughout the design industry as a thought leader in design-led organizational transformation, participatory, and forward-looking design capability development. At Kyndryl, she leads the design profession, partnering with technical strategists to integrate experience ecosystem thinking into the technical solutions. Sarah is an encaustic painter and passionate surfer.
*Moses Namara (Meta and Clemson University). Namara co-created the Black in Artificial Intelligence graduate application mentoring program to help students applying to graduate school. The program, run through the resource group Black in AI, has mentored 400 applicants, 200 of whom have been accepted to competitive AI programs. It provides an array of resources: mentorship from current PhD students and professors, CV evaluations, and advice on where to apply. Namara now sees the mentorship system evolving to the next logical step: helping Black PhD and master’s students find that first job.
*Joanne Jang (OpenAI). Joanne Jang is the product lead of DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI that creates original images and artwork from a natural language description. Joanne and her team were responsible for turning the DALL·E research into a tool people can use to extend their creative processes and for building safeguards to ensure the technology will be used responsibly. The DALL·E beta was introduced in July 2022 and now has more than 1 million users.
Daniel Salinas (Colombia) Su ‘start-up’ monitoriza las plantas con nanotecnología al conectarlas con ordenadores y facilita la descarbonización. Los humanos tienen 'ceguera a las plantas'. Nuestros sesgos nos impiden percibirlas como sí hacemos con los animales. Esta desconexión planta-humano lleva a que los proyectos de plantar árboles para capturar carbono frente a la crisis climática no sean sostenibles si la reforestación no se mantiene en el tiempo. El estudiante de Emprendimiento colombiano Daniel Salinas descubrió la falta de infraestructuras en la lucha para la descarbonización con una 'start-up' de plantación de árboles. El joven recuerda: "Cada vez que íbamos al terreno teníamos problemas". Para romper esta desconexión entre personas y árboles, Salinas ha creado una interfaz planta-ordenador que permite hacer un seguimiento de la vegetación con su start-up Superplants. Con esta aportación, Salinas ha logrado ser uno de los Innovadores menores de 35 Latinoamérica 2022 de MIT Technology Review en español.
Relevant References:
-https://www.building-up.org/knowledgehub/innovadores-menores-de-35-latinoamrica-2022
-https://event.technologyreview.com/emtech-mit-2022/speakers
-https://www.technologyreview.com/innovator/setor-zilevu/
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