Humans and AI: Meet Juan Lavista | Episode 6

  • Juan Lavista Ferres

Humans and AI tells stories of passionate people from all walks of life, who are using AI to transform our society and our world for the better.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, Juan has focused his work on stopping the spread of the virus. Last year, Juan joined a coalition of scientists to understand the pandemic’s trajectory and went on to help develop Progress to Zero which helps provide transparency into COVID-19 trends in different locations. The project uses AI-enabled modeling and analysis to give experts and officials the information to better understand how the pandemic evolving. Juan hopes that by providing this synthesized, up-to-date information, the world can make well-informed decisions.

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Speaker Details

Juan M, Lavista Ferres is currently the Chief Scientist and Lab Director of the Microsoft AI For Good Research Lab, where he works with a team of data scientists and researchers  in AI, Machine Learning and statistical modeling, working across Microsoft AI For Good efforts. These efforts includes projects in AI For Earth, AI for Humanitarian Action, AI For Accessibility and AI For Health.

Juan joined Microsoft in 2009 to work for the Microsoft Experimentation Platform (EXP) where he designed and ran randomized control experiments across different Microsoft groups. Juan also worked as part of the Bing Data Mining team, where he led a group applying data mining, machine learning, statistical modeling and online experimentation at a large scale as well as providing data services for Bing.

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