Dra. Yelena Yesha

At the University of Miami, Dr. Yelena Yesha is the Knight Foundation Endowed Chair in Data Science and AI at the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC). At IDSC, Dr. Yesha is also the Director for the AI + Machine Learning program, as well as Innovation Officer. Dr. Yesha was the Founding Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA), an NSF-funded Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) that aims to develop long-term partnerships among industry, academia, and government. Dr. Yesha received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The Ohio State University. She has published 11 books as author or editor, and more than 250 papers in prestigious refereed journals and refereed conference proceedings, and she has been awarded external funding in a total amount exceeding $75 million dollars. Forbes magazine highlighted Dr. Yesha's accomplishments in technology in a two-part profile: Part I: Dr. Yelena Yesha: Meet The Tenacious Pioneer Pushing Innovation To Address Real World Problems and Part II: Dr. Yelena Yesha: Pushing Technology Boundaries To Solve The World's Biggest Problems, and covered her recent work with NASA here: Revolutionizing Satellite Security: NASA’s Groundbreaking Project To Integrate AI, Blockchain, & Nanosatellites.