Assistant Professor, Marist University
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Gissella Bejarano
Gissella Bejarano is a Peruvian scientist whose current research is AI4Good, which includes Sign Language Processing and machine learning applied to smart cities’ problems. She holds a master and a doctorate in Computer Science by Binghamton University. She received a Fulbright Scholarship in 2015. She has broad academic, industry, and governmental experiences, such as serving on a committee of experts to create a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Peru. She has been the technical lead of one of the first public sign language dictionaries (Peruvian Sign Language-Spanish).
In sign languages, iconicity is the property of certain signs to correspond in form with their meaning. Through this fellowship, Gissella will analyze the role of iconicity in analogical reasoning. She will train a machine learning model to generate images based on signs for that aim. And she will measure the extension of the learned representations through transfer learning on not only another sign language but in non-verbal communication of hearing people.
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AI2050 Community Perspectives — Gissella Bejarano (2023)
Assistant Professor, Marist University
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