Toju Duke, who spent ten years at Google, latterly as a Programme Manager on Responsible AI, is recognised as one of the top women in AI and is a popular speaker, author and advisor on Responsible AI with over 18 years experience spanning across Advertising, Retail, Not-For Profit and Tech.
Toju worked at Google for 10 years where she spent the last couple of years as a Programme Manager on Responsible AI leading various Responsible AI programmes across Google’s product and research teams with a primary focus on large-scale models and Responsible AI processes. Prior to her time on Google’s research organisation, Toju was the EMEA product lead for Google Travel and worked as a specialist across Google Travel and Shopping.
Toju is also the founder of Diverse AI, a community interest organisation with a mission to support and champion underrepresented groups to build a diverse and inclusive AI future. Her passion to improve Artificial Intelligence and representation in the field, led to the birth of Diverse AI which is focused on 3 main activities: Education, Research and Events targeted at people who identify with underrepresented groups and either want to up skill, join the field or have a sense of belonging and community with like-minded people. Toju was previously the UK lead for “Women in AI”, a non-profit global organisation with a mission to drive gender diversity in AI.
Toju’s dedication and commitment to the development and deployment of Responsible AI practices led to the writing of her book “Building Responsible AI Algorithms”. The book introduces a Responsible AI framework and guides readers through processes to apply at each stage of the machine learning (ML) life cycle, from problem definition to deployment, in order to reduce and mitigate the risks and harms found in AI technologies. The book provides practical tips and guidance on how to develop models that are fair, transparent, safe, secure, robust, and ethical.
“Building Responsible AI Algorithms” is available for order across bookstores worldwide. “Building Responsible AI Algorithms” has been adopted by several international universities and is currently used as a reading lecture in the University of Pavia, Italy. Toju is in the process of writing her second book which covers regulation, AI governance, risk taxonomies and risk assessment frameworks, a guide on safe and responsible AI using statistical and programming languages, and real-life case studies.
Toju provides consultation and advice on Responsible AI practices and has been featured across several national and international media outlets such as the BBC, Sky News, El Pais, La Nacion, La Vanguardia, Sifted etc., and has been recognised as one of the top women in AI by several media outlets, such as Daily AI, Xantage and the AI Speaker agency.
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