Renée Sieber
Biography:
Dr. RENÉE SIEBER is an Associate Professor jointly appointed to the School of
Environment and to the Department of Geography at McGill University, in Montreal. She has 20+ years experience working at the intersection of civic empowerment and computational technologies.
Sieber is best known for her research and practice on public participation in computerized mapping and in climate modelling. She is currently researching public participation in GeoAI and is advising the design of two AI risk assessment tools. Oh, and she also conducts research on supervised and unsupervised classification and has done some computer vision feature detection.
Sieber earned her Ph.D. in urban planning from Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she was the winner of Rutgers Graduate Scholars Award (1991-93), as well as recipient of its 1991 Russell Fellowship. She received her M.P.A. from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.
Sources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renee-sieber-5b42a44 | https://aifortherestofus.ca/people | https://www.albany.edu/updates/1999/3-10/index.html
Activities:
Walter Gordon Symposium — AI, Public Policy and Accountability