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Sasha Luccioni
Born
Soviet Union
Alma materUniversité du Québec à Montréal (PhD in Cognitive Computing)
École normale supérieure (Paris) (MSc in Cognitive Science)
Known forComputational sustainability
Algorithmic bias
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsHugging Face
Mila (research institute)
ThesisSTI-DICO: an intelligent tutoring system to foster dictionary skills for french teachers-in-training (2018)
WebsitePersonal website

Sasha (Alexandra) Luccioni (born Alexandra Vorobyova) is a computer scientist who works on computational sustainability and algorithmic bias. Her research aims at quantifying and analyzing the carbon footprint of deep learning models.[1][2]

Education edit

Luccioni obtained a bachelor's degree in Linguistics and a master's degree in Cognitive Science, studying language acquisition in virtual environments.[3] In 2016 she got a PhD in Cognitive computing at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she wrote her thesis on the role of Artificial intelligence and Natural language processing in language acquisition.[4]

Career and research edit

Luccioni started her career at Nuance Communications, before joining Morgan Stanley as the founding member of their Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence.[5] There, she worked on developing new techniques for named-entity recognition and sentiment analysis in financial settings.

In 2019, she joined the Mila research institute to work with Yoshua Bengio, leading "This Climate Does Not Exist", a project that used Generative adversarial network approaches to create images of climate change impacts around the world.[6] In 2020, she was named a National Geographic Explorer.[7]

Since 2021, she has been the climate research lead at Hugging Face, assessing and reporting on the carbon footprint of AI[8] and specifically of transformer models.[9] She also studies the ethical and societal impacts of machine learning models and datasets.[10][11]

In September 2023, Luccioni was named to MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35” list for contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.[12] The next month, she gave a TED talk during the TEDWomen event in Atlanta on why the world needs to focus on AI’s current negative impacts rather than future existential risks.[13] Her talk has garnered over 1 million views since it was uploaded.

As of 2024, she serves as a board member of Women in Machine Learning,[14] and a member of the OECD AI Expert Group on AI Compute and Climate.[15]

References edit

  1. ^ Luccioni, Alexandra Sasha; Viguier, Sylvain; Ligozat, Anne-Laure (2022-11-03), Estimating the Carbon Footprint of BLOOM, a 176B Parameter Language Model, arXiv:2211.02001, retrieved 2024-04-03
  2. ^ Calvert, Brian (2024-03-28). "AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It's only the beginning". Vox. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  3. ^ https://www.semdial.org/anthology/Z12-Vorobyova_semdial_0038.pdf
  4. ^ Luccioni, Alexandra (2018). STI-DICO: an intelligent tutoring system to foster dictionary skills for french teachers-in-training (PhD). Université du Québec à Montréal.
  5. ^ "Top AI researcher leaves Morgan Stanley for academia". eFinancialcareers. February 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  6. ^ Metz, Rachel (October 14, 2021). "This website helps you imagine what extreme climate change will do to your home". CNN Business. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  7. ^ "Explorer since 2020 Alexandra Luccioni". National Geographic. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  8. ^ Stokel-Walker, Chris (August 1, 2023). "TechScape: Turns out there's another problem with AI – its environmental toll". The Guardian. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  9. ^ Heikkilä, Melissa (November 14, 2022). "We're getting a better idea of AI's true carbon footprint". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  10. ^ Rose, Janus (November 3, 2022). "This Tool Lets Anyone See the Bias in AI Image Generators". Vice. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  11. ^ Jernite, Yacine; Mitchell, Margaret; Akiki, Christopher; Luccioni, Sasha (2023-09-25). "Stable Bias: Evaluating Societal Representations in Diffusion Models". 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS 2023. arXiv:2303.11408.
  12. ^ "Sasha Luccioni". MIT Technology Review. September 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  13. ^ "Sasha Luccioni's TED talk". TED. October 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  14. ^ "Women in Machine Learning Board of Directors". Women in Machine Learning. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  15. ^ "Sasha Luccioni". OECD. Retrieved January 8, 2024.

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