Samantha Kappagoda and David K.A. Mordecai participated as invited panelists at the 2019 ABA-IPL Annual Meeting and 34th Intellectual Property Law Conference in Crystal City, Virginia.
Dr. Mordecai, Co-Managing Member of Numerati® Partners highlighted relevant operative aspects of artificial intelligence, and offered observations regarding law and economics implications of those underlying technologies during the panel “Artificial Intelligence and IP Rights in and from AI Around the Globe”. He has three decades of extensive industry and capital markets experience with automation and operational risk in diverse commercial contexts, as well as a PhD from University of Chicago and an MBA in finance from NYU Stern. He is also a vice-chair of the AI and Robotics Law Committee of the Sci-Tech Chapter of the ABA, and Co-Chair of the cybersecurity industry organizing committee of the NSF-funded Northeast Big Data Hub.
Ms. Kappagoda, Co-Managing Member of Numerati® Partners presented intuitive insights and practical technical observations related to the functional aspects of blockchain consensus algorithms most relevant to their scalable reliability and validity during the panel “Blockchain & IP Promises and Limitations.” She has extensive experience overseeing development and implementation of analytics and algorithms in real-world trading environments, in addition to Masters degrees from both University of Chicago and University of Toronto, and a BSc (honors) degree in mathematics from Imperial College London.
Dr. Mordecai and Ms. Kappagoda lead research activities at RiskEcon Lab.
About RiskEcon® Lab for Decision Metrics @ Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
The mission of RiskEcon® Lab @ Courant is to facilitate the development of software, analytics tools, and semantic libraries that employ high-dimensional datasets to integrate conventional data with web-enabled demographic, biometric, psychometric and sociometric data from innovative sources, by applying a range of computational and analytical methods to commercial, consumer and population-related societal trends, focusing primarily on research and development (R&D).
Numerati® Partners LLC coodinates a data analytics and technology development ecosystem, with the mission of advancing and fostering the next generation of scalable data-intensive risk and liability management enterprises. The firm provides resources fundamental to advancing the development of nascent leading-edge inferential surveillance, monitoring, and predictive analytics technologies for deployment within the RiskTech domain: risk technologies associated with adaptive distributed, networked and embedded systems such as remote sensing, agent-oriented data analytics, computing and control systems. Numerati® Partners curates integrated RiskTech solutions as well as forensic and use-case applications in RiskTech sub-domains such as LitTech, RegTech, FinTech and InsurTech (litigation technology, regulation technology, financial technology and insurance technology).
April 12, 2019, Crystal City, VA