The Presidential Dan and Carole Burack Lecture Series highlights the exceptional caliber of our campus scholars, scientists, artists and writers who are acknowledged as preeminent in their discipline, thus enriching the academic environment.

Juniper Lovato will focus her lecture on Who's Missing from the Model? The people left out of AI training data, systems, and rules. Dr. Lovato's area of expertise covers ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies; online consent and digital privacy governance; complex systems; natural language processing; digital humanities and the science of stories; open source; responsible research practices in data and computing.

Juniper Lovato is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont and an active Vermont Complex Systems Institute member. Her current research centers around data ethics, fairness, accountability, transparency, the science of stories, and open-source ecosystems. Drawing from diverse disciplines, including computational social science, computer science, complex systems, and networks, she applies various tools and methods to explore these critical areas. She is a Co-PI of the EPSCoR Track-1 award, The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS), focused on the science of stories and the PI of VERSO, an Open Source Program Office at the University of Vermont funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 

Juniper earned her Ph.D. in Complex Systems and Data Science from the University of Vermont and her MALA in the Classics from St. John’s College. Her previous role involved contributing to education initiatives as the Director of Education for the Santa Fe Institute.

Please join us an enjoy a coffee, tea, cookie, crudite, and lecture.