CURA Data Analytics Speaker: Dr. Kristin Tolle of Microsoft Research

Her lecture will focus on research collaborations which cut across sectors providing interesting breakthroughs in research and development. The use cases discussed will focus on global challenges—such as healthcare and climate change. They will also highlight collaborations that occur across organization boundaries—such as industry, government and academia.

Since joining Microsoft Research’s outreach program in 2006, she has run several major initiatives from biomedical computing and environmental science to more traditional computer and information science programs around natural user interactions and data curation. She also directed the development of the Microsoft Translator Hub and the Environmental Science Services Toolkit.

Dr. Tolle is an editor of one of the earliest books on data science, The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery. Her current focus is development of an outreach program to engage with academics on data science in general and more specifically around using data to create meaningful and useful user experiences across devices platforms.