Empowering women using A.I | Dr. Ioannis (Yannis) Konstas | TEDxYouth@StGeorgesEdinburgh

This talk addresses the critical issue of gender-based violence against women, emphasizing that it is not just a women's issue but everyone's issue. Exploring how artificial intelligence can be a powerful tool in raising awareness and protecting individuals online Yannis Konstas is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University since 2017. He is also a co-founder and head of Machine Learning at Alana AI, an official spin-out of Heriot-Watt since 2020. His expertise lies in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Generation (NLG), and Machine Learning (ML). His research passion is to build faithful, trusted, safe, and fair NLP applications. His early work focused on data-driven scalable machine learning techniques and deep learning models for a multitude of NLG applications including Data-to-Text generation, Text Summarisation, Question Answering, and Conversational AI. More recently his research interests moved into the field of representation in AI, specifically in the domain of online Gender Based Violence (GBV).
In this talk he will explore several facets of online GBV in our modern society and ways to mitigate it using AI This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx