{"id":128619,"date":"2021-10-06T12:24:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/dr-arathi-sethumadhavan-phd-head-of-user-research-ai-ethics-society-microsofts-cloudai"},"modified":"2021-10-06T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:24:15","slug":"dr-arathi-sethumadhavan-phd-head-of-user-research-ai-ethics-society-microsofts-cloudai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/dr-arathi-sethumadhavan-phd-head-of-user-research-ai-ethics-society-microsofts-cloudai","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Arathi Sethumadhavan, PhD \u2014 Head of User Research, AI, Ethics &amp; Society, Microsoft\u2019s Cloud+AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T_Y-tphFz8Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Human Factors, Ethical Artificial Intelligence, And Healthy Aging \u2014 Dr. Arathi Sethumadhavan, PhD, Head of User Research, AI, Ethics &amp; Society, Microsoft Cloud+AI.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dr. Arathi Sethumadhavan, Ph.D. is Head of User Research for AI, Ethics &amp; Society, at Microsoft\u2019s Cloud+AI organization, where she works at the intersection of user research, ethics, and product experience.<\/p>\n<p>In her current role, Dr. Sethumadhavan is focused on the Microsoft AI ethical principles (privacy and consent, fairness, inclusion, accountability, and transparency) as it relates to various Microsoft AI experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sethumadhavan is a seasoned research leader, with two decades of experience studying human-technology interaction, and during the course of her career, she has led user research for several novel and complex applications (e.g., Microsoft\u2019s custom neural voice, facial recognition), as well as at Medtronic, where she provided human factors leadership to multiple products in the Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure portfolio, including the world\u2019s smallest pacemaker. She has also spent several years investigating the implications of automation on air traffic controller performance and situation awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sethumadhavan is also a Fellow at the World Economic Forum, where she is working on unlocking opportunities for positive impact with AI to address the needs of the aging population.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/dr-arathi-sethumadhavan-phd-head-of-user-research-ai-ethics-society-microsofts-cloudai\">Continue reading \u201cDr. Arathi Sethumadhavan, PhD \u2014 Head of User Research, AI, Ethics &amp; Society, Microsoft\u2019s Cloud+AI\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Factors, Ethical Artificial Intelligence, And Healthy Aging \u2014 Dr. Arathi Sethumadhavan, PhD, Head of User Research, AI, Ethics &amp; Society, Microsoft Cloud+AI. Dr. Arathi Sethumadhavan, Ph.D. is Head of User Research for AI, Ethics &amp; Society, at Microsoft\u2019s Cloud+AI organization, where she works at the intersection of user research, ethics, and product experience. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}