Apr 17
Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace and Beyond
Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace and Beyond
Please join us for an informative and thought-provoking panel discussion as Carleton alumni share their insights about Artificial Intelligence in the workplace and beyond.
You will hear insights from a wide variety of perspectives ranging from academia to big tech. Ever wonder how the health care sector is using AI to manage large data sets to improve patient health? Curious how AI might help you write your next book chapter?
Our distinguished panel will share how their work intersects with various facets of AI, and they will discuss some of the complex questions this cutting-edge innovative technology presents going forward.
The panel will be moderated by David Holmes ’96, P’25, with panelists Rebecca Gelles ’13, Jonathan Elsas ’98, and Debbie Urbanski ’98. There will also be time for your questions during the Q&A portion of the event.
Cost: None.
Register by Tuesday, April 15
Sponsored by The Twin Cities Business Alumni Network.
Questions? Contact Alumni Relations via email or 800-729-2586.
Jonathan Elsas ’98
Dr. Jonathan Elsas is a PhD computer scientist, software engineer, and technical lead at Google. He has over 20 years of experience in applied machine learning, AI, and natural language processing. His academic publications include evaluations of algorithms for automatic question-answering systems and search algorithms for social media systems. Jonathan uses Large Language Models (LLMs) daily to solve problems at Google in the online shopping domain, working to understand everything about all products for sale online worldwide. Outside of work, he is an avid amateur film photographer, a vintage camera and calculator enthusiast, and a sourdough baker.
Rebecca Gelles ’13
Rebecca Gelles is a data scientist at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, a data-driven policy research center focused on emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence. Her work there supports this policy research with data analysis, the creation of artificial intelligence and natural language processing models to enhance relevant data, and publication of artificial intelligence research. Previously, she spent almost seven years in the federal government, where she worked on topics including data science, natural language processing, and high performance computing. Rebecca holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Linguistics from Carleton College and an M.S. in Computer Science from University of Maryland College Park, where her research focused on media influences on cybersecurity knowledge and on applying artificial intelligence to defend devices from cyber attacks.
David Holmes ’96, P’25
David R. Holmes III, Ph.D. is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Mayo Clinic. He studies the methods by which healthcare researchers analyze and interpret large data sets. Dr. Holmes conducts his research from the perspective that data drives decisions. In the case of personal health, individual and population-based data can inform health decisions, disease characterization and therapy planning. The use of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare has revolutionized biomedical research and clinical care, allowing for real-time mining the clinical and imaging data that exist within the electronic medical record yielding better-individualized strategies for patient health. Dr. Holmes is also the Program Director for the Mayo Graduate School Masters of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. This unique educational program trains future clinical practitioners, biomedical scientists, and healthcare leaders to adopt an integrated approach to improving human health which leverages Artificial Intelligence principles and tools in clinical care, discovery science, and healthcare decision making.
Debbie Urbanski ’98
Debbie Urbanski is a writer interested in the intersections between technology and the planet. Her debut novel After World (Simon & Schuster, 2023)—named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, Strange Horizons, Booklist, and the Los Angeles Times—is narrated by an AI who is tasked with telling the story of the last human on Earth. While writing the book, Urbanski spent a lot of time thinking, reading, and playing around with early versions of Chat GPT as well as image generation models like Dall-E and Midjourney. She still finds generative AI to be a useful tool for her writing and is curious about collaborative art between AI and humans. Her next book, a collection of cross-genre stories called Portalmania, will come out in May 2025 from Simon & Schuster.