Simran Khanuja is a PhD student at the Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University since August 2022. Her research focuses on expanding the capabilities of multimodal systems to serve a wide range of users across languages and cultures, with applications in localization, information access, conversational AI, education, and assistive technologies. Previously, she was a Pre-Doctoral Researcher at Google Research and worked at Microsoft Research. She has made contributions towards advancing under-represented languages in NLP and her work has been published at top NLP conferences like ACL and EMNLP, including best paper awards at EMNLP 2024, IEEE BigData 2024, and SLT 2022. She is also a recipient of the Waibel Presidential Fellowship for 2024-25.

Alice Xiang is the Global Head of AI Ethics at Sony. As the VP leading AI ethics initiatives across Sony Group, she manages the team responsible for conducting AI ethics assessments across Sony's business units and implementing Sony's AI Ethics Guidelines. In addition, as the Lead Research Scientist for AI ethics at Sony AI, Alice leads a lab of AI researchers working on cutting-edge research to enable the development of more responsible AI solutions. Alice also recently served as a General Chair for the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), the premier multidisciplinary research conference on these topics. Alice is both a lawyer and statistician, with experience developing machine learning models and serving as legal counsel for technology companies. Alice holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, a Master’s in Development Economics from Oxford, a Master’s in Statistics from Harvard, and a Bachelor’s in Economics from Harvard.