March 2018 - change - Mailing Lists

Fwd: Rice 360 Opening- Design Engineer in Malawi!
by Matt Johnson 27 Mar '18

27 Mar '18

If anyone is interested in the opportunity below let me know and I can get you in touch with Veronica! Cheers, -Matt J. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Veronica <vl2(a)rice.edu> Date: Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 3:08 PM Subject: Rice 360 Opening- Design Engineer in Malawi! To: matt.9.johnson(a)gmail.com Hi everyone, I am hoping we can ask for your help! We have a position open for a Design Engineer to work at the Malawi Polytechnic, and we are hoping you can help us spread the word!! The position is based in Blantyre, Malawi, overseeing the work ate Design Studio at the Malawi Polytechnic. It involves mentoring students and faculty as they do their engineering design projects, fostering projects with the community, and seeing the growth and operations of the prototyping facility that is twinned with Rice’s OEDK. It’s a really cool job, that calls for engineering skills, and a significant amount of leadership and interpersonal skills. You can see a cool video of the studio and our students here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JbGYPSn4Tg , and both Matt Petney, who just ended his tenure as studio director, and myself are happy to have informal chats with interested candidates. This is a really strategic position for our international program, and we are looking for the best candidates out there! - We have done pretty well in working with you all here J SO we are crossing our fingers that you can help us identify other talented engineers! Thanks! Vero --- Veronica Leautaud, Ph.D. Director of Education Rice 360° Institute for Global Health 6500 Main St. BRC 174 Houston, TX 77030 phone: (713)348-2932 <(713)%20348-2932>

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UW Change Seminar 3/27: Ben Wilson- AI for low-cost mobile medicine applications
by Esther Jang 27 Mar '18

27 Mar '18

Please join us for the Change Seminar on Tuesday *3/27/2018* in *EEB 003*. *Who:* Ben Wilson, Intellectual Ventures Laboratory *What:* AI for low-cost mobile medicine applications *When:* Tuesday, March 27th, 12-1 PM *Where:* EEB 003 *Bio:* Ben Wilson is a principal investigator at Intellectual Ventures Laboratory in Bellevue, WA. His group investigates optics, imaging systems, and computer vision for applications in global health and global development. Ben has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. Prior to working at Intellectual Ventures Lab, he worked for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA. *Abstract:* While the virtues of artificial intelligence are debated in the developed world, many health systems in developing countries suffer from a lack of trained doctors and medical technicians. Artificial intelligence provides a compelling means to fill this gap and bring the expertise of trained medical professions to more people at lower cost. Unlike telemedicine, which requires data connectivity and on-call doctors, intelligent diagnostic aids can assist users with minimal training to make life saving diagnoses with locally-hosted apps. In this seminar, we will discuss how computer vision algorithms leveraging state of the art deep learning techniques can expand the capabilities of health workers in the developing world. We will give an overview of several applications where Intellectual Ventures Lab is using these techniques, including malaria, cervical cancer, and lower respiratory infection. Here's the link <https://meet.google.com/kkr-mebs-okp> for joining remotely.

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Medic Mobile is hiring a Senior Researcher! Open source, human-centered design & global health
by Isaac Holeman 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hi Change List, Medic Mobile is looking to hire a Senior Researcher! If you know someone who might be interested, I’d appreciate it if you would forward this message. Details below. Cheers,Isaac Senior Researcher Job PostingMedic Mobile (MM) designs, delivers, and supports software for health workers providing care in the hardest-to-reach communities. We envision a world where community health workers (CHWs) are supported as they provide care for their neighbors. MM and our partners have proven that high-quality care can be provided through integrated, community-based health systems. Our software is free, open-source, and deployed at scale in the last mile of healthcare. At the end of 2017, Medic Mobile was supporting a network of more than 20,000 frontline health workers; we aim to support health workers serving 100 million people between 2017 and 2021. We are seeking a Senior Researcher to lead key in-house studies and coordinate strategic research partnerships with University-based labs and other institutions. This role calls for demonstrated research skills, a high technical aptitude and the ability to conceptualize and execute studies of strategic significance for Medic Mobile and for our mission of global health equity. Our research archive includes more than 50 publications, including 32 peer-reviewed articles and a range of technical reports and white papers. The Senior Researcher will report to Medic Mobile co-founder and Research Lead Isaac Holeman. This role is location-flexible and may entail up to 30% travel to research sites; preference may be given to candidates co-located with Medic Mobile staff in Seattle, San Francisco, Nairobi or Kathmandu. We are already reviewing applications and the position will remain open until it is filled. More about research at Medic Mobile: http://medicmobile.org/research-impact-reportsThe full job posting: http://medicmobile.org/careers Isaac Holeman, PhDMedic Mobile co-founder & research leadTwitter @Medic @isaacholeman

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Fwd: [Researchers] Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good at EC '18
by Matthew Johnson 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Of possible interest to folks with work on economics. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kira Goldner <kgoldner(a)cs.washington.edu> Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:32 Subject: [Researchers] Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good at EC '18 To: <researchers(a)cs.washington.edu>, <theory-group(a)cs.washington.edu> CC: Rediet Abebe <red(a)cs.cornell.edu> Hi everyone, I'm co-organizing the second workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good <http://md4sg.com/workshop/EC18/index.html> this year at EC <http://sigecom.org/ec18/>, the primary conference in the EconCS community (the intersection of theoretical CS and economics). We're seeking paper submissions broadly. If you have *research with a social good component *that might inspire *work on algorithms and incentives schemes*, we would love to have your submission! Examples include: work on the developing world, privacy, or really any domain where algorithms can be used to better align incentives and the objective is to improve societal good or mitigate inequality. See the call for papers for more examples. Alternatively, *if you're on any email lists where this might be relevant, I would appreciate your distributing the call for papers.* (This might include in communities like computer science, economics, operations research, sociology, public policy, etc.) Thank you! Kira ----- Subject: Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good at EC '18 The 2nd Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good <http://md4sg.com/workshop/EC18/index.html> will be taking place at this year's ACM Conference on Economics and Computation at Cornell University on June 22, 2018. The goal of the workshop is to highlight work where insights from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design have the potential to impact social good. In particular, we will focus on the theme of *improving access to opportunity*. The workshop will feature keynote presentations focusing on economic inequality, online labor markets, bias and discrimination. We encourage submissions addressing these and other domains, such as housing, healthcare, education, civic participation, privacy, and the developing world. The workshop aims to showcase ongoing exemplary work on these topics and to highlight exciting opportunities for future research. Submissions of all types are encouraged, including theoretical or applied mechanism design work, research that solves algorithmic or optimization problems, and empirical research. Topics of interest for this workshop include but *are not limited to*: - redistributive mechanisms to improve access to opportunity - economic inequality and intergenerational mobility - mitigating unequal economic outcomes in online labor markets - detecting existence or causes of exploitative market behavior in online labor markets - the design of algorithms that mitigate bias and improve diversity - allocating low-income housing assistance - allocating health insurance funds, managing access to healthcare, and pricing medical treatments - design of health insurance markets - evaluating students, teachers, or schools - design of transportation systems - market regulations for data and privacy - algorithmic solutions to encourage civic participation - evaluating fairness in electoral representation Submissions will be evaluated on the following criteria: - Quality of submission as measured by accuracy and clarity of exposition. - Relevance to this workshop and its theme of improving access to opportunity. - Novelty of domain: we particularly encourage work on applications that have been less explored within the EC community. - Potential for follow-up work in the EC community: those from other communities who feel they fit this criterion are especially encouraged to submit. Authors may submit papers that are already under review or accepted in conferences or journals. However, papers accepted to this year’s EC will not be considered for presentation at the workshop. There will be no published proceedings. Authors should upload a PDF of their paper to EasyChair. There are no specific formatting instructions. Submissions may either be working papers or papers that have been published at an established conference or journal. In the latter case, please include a citation on EasyChair. In addition to the PDF, authors are asked to upload a 200-250 word description onto EasyChair summarizing the results and their relevance to the workshop. The committee reserves the right not to review all the technical details of submissions. *Important Information: * - Submission Deadline: April 21, 2018, 11:59pm AoE - Submission page: EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=md4sg18> - Notification: May 16, 2018 - Workshop Date: June 22, 2018 *Organizing Committee:* Program Chairs: - Rediet Abebe <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~red/>, Cornell University - Kira Goldner <http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~kgoldner/>, University of Washington _______________________________________________ Researchers mailing list Researchers(a)cs.washington.edu https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/researchers _______________________________________________ Cs-grads mailing list Cs-grads(a)cs.washington.edu https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cs-grads

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UW DFS Workshop - March 16th
by Jennifer Rose Webster 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

Dear All, I would like to invite you to our UW DFS Workshop on March 16th from 10am-7pm in CSE 691. I have attached the agenda for you to view. The Workshop will feature a keynote address, from Bill Maurer, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at UC Irvine and an expert on technology, money and financial inclusion. We will also have a demo of the UW Pesa Demo Lab, featured talks form academia and industry, as well as two panels that focus on 1) security and fraud in DFS and 2) Social Science and Computer Science Collaboration. Please RSVP to jenniweb(a)cs.washington.edu if you plan to attend. Best, -- *Jen Webster* *Research Coordinator, **Digital Financial Services Research Group* *Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering* University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2350 jenniweb(a)cs.washington.edu

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Informatics Senior Technical Advisor position with I-TECH
by Richard Anderson 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

Hello! The International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) has an outstanding opportunity for a Seattle-based Senior Technical Advisor<https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=…>. The Senior Technical Advisor (STA) provides leadership for the overall planning, design, development, and implementation of digital health information systems within multiple country programs. The STA works directly with the Principal Investigators, other members of I-TECH's Informatics Team, I-TECH's country teams, and Ministry of Health counterparts to design and implement appropriate digital health solutions. The STA must have the ability to bridge highly technical aspects of health informatics with the constraints of resource-limited settings in order to fully integrate the solutions within public health and clinical practice. This position is contingent on funding. To learn more and to apply, please visit the UW employment site<https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=…>. Please share this posting with qualified colleagues. Thanks! Nancy Puttkammer, MPH, PhD Research and Evaluation Advisor, International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington 325 Ninth Ave, Box # 359932 Seattle, WA 98104 Tel: +1 (206) 616-5139 FAX: +1 (206) 221-4945 Skype ID: nancy.puttkammer Website: http://www.go2itech.org<http://www.go2itech.org/> I-TECH envisions a world in which all people have access to high quality, compassionate, and equitable health care.

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Fwd: [Researchers] Talk Monday at 4 by Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research India - CSE 305
by Kurtis Heimerl 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska(a)cs.washington.edu> Date: Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 2:05 PM Subject: [Researchers] Talk Monday at 4 by Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research India - CSE 305 To: Researchers <researchers(a)cs.washington.edu> On Monday at 4 p.m. in CSE 305, Sriram Rajamani, the Managing Director of Microsoft Research India, will give an overview talk describing MSRI's activities. Sriram is outstanding, and MSRI is doing extremely impressive work. (Our Ph.D. alum Chandu Thekkath was Sriram's predecessor as Managing Director; our friend P. Anandan was the Founding Managing Director of the lab.) *Overview of Microsoft Research India* Founded in 2005, Microsoft Research India just turned 13 years old. Our work spans 4 areas: (1) Algorithms, data science and theory (2) machine learning and AI, (3) systems, including programming languages, security, privacy and networking, and (4) technology for socio-economic development. I will give an overview of our people, our research, and explain a few projects in some detail. I will also outline opportunities for students to engage with MSR India through internships as well as applying for postdoc/research positions (we are hiring!). *Bio:* Sriram Rajamani is Managing Director of Microsoft Research India. See http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/sriram/bio.aspx <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense…> _______________________________________________ Researchers mailing list Researchers(a)cs.washington.edu https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/researchers

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Nigerian seeks treatment for Typhoid and Malaria Co-Infection...
by Yosem Companys 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

Anybody on the list have any contacts in international public health who might be able to help Abraham (cc'ed) get access to medication? Thanks, Yosem

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Re: [change] UW Change Seminar 3/6: Lubna Razaq- Digital Financial Services Research in Pakistan: Information Technology University's FinTech Center, Academia, and Industry
by Esther Jang 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

Reminder: This is today at 12 pm in EEB003. Here is the webcast link as usual: https://meet.google.com/kkr-mebs-okp On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Esther Jang <infrared(a)cs.washington.edu> wrote: > Please join us for the last Change Seminar of the quarter on Tuesday > 3/6/2018 in *EEB 003*. > > *Who*: Lubna Razaq, Director of the ITU FinTech Center > *What*: *Digital Financial Services Research in Pakistan: Information > Technology University's FinTech Center, Academia, and Industry* > *When: *Tuesday, March 6th, 12-1 PM > *Where*: EEB 003 > > *Abstract:* > Pakistan has one of the lowest financial inclusion ratios in the world. > Mobile Financial Services have been around for some time but their uptake > has been very low in Pakistan. Gaps exist in almost all verticals of > financial services, with some segments of the population more excluded than > others. This requires special attention. The ITU FinTech Center conducts > research to create solutions for problems that hinder scaling and adoption > of Digital Financial Services in Pakistan. The FinTech Center's Director, > Lubna Razaq, will be talking about the financial services landscape in > Pakistan, the DFS research being carried out at the FinTech Center in > collaboration with DFSRG at UW, learnings from conducting research in the > regulated financial space, and working with the industry on research and > development. > > *Profile:* > Lubna is the Director of the FinTech Center at Information Technology > University in Lahore, Pakistan. She is a financial technology professional > with experience in product development, business development, and > consulting. Before taking her position at ITU, Lubna was part of > FinSurgents, a Singapore-based FinTech consulting firm, where she led > in-depth studies into the FinTech ecosystem of Pakistan in comparison with > global hubs. This work produced a ‘Roadmap for FinTech ecosystem > development in Pakistan’ and a ‘Framework for Karandaaz Pakistan’ to invest > into FinTech startups. She acted as adviser to the local regulator on > FinTech regulations around the world. Prior to joining FinSurgents, Lubna > worked for Vopium, based in Denmark, on all facets of IR value chain- > cash-in, cash out, European payment regulations, international transfers, > digital KYC and AML for online channels. The main focus of her work on IR > has been on EU to Pakistan corridors. >

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CleanWeb Seattle MeetUp on Thursday
by Matt Stevenson 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

Hi Change, Wanted to let you know about CleanWeb Seattle <https://www.meetup.com/CleanWeb-Seattle/events/247673244/>, a new MeetUp to be held at WeWork <https://www.google.com/search?q=500+Yale+Avenue+North+Seattle+WA+98109&oq=5…> in South Lake Union on Thursday. This is an extension of the long running CleanWeb MeetUp in the Bay Area, with the goal of providing a needed congregating point for the the clean and sustainable web/data supported tech industry in Seattle. Join and help us figure out speaker list for the coming year! Please signup on MeetUp and add your name to this form <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ihK1ZWWZbUJYYqJ1QZsnvYzw4MWwM83NRNe…> and bring a government ID so we can get you into WeWork. Matt Stevenson CleanWeb Seattle Organizer

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