Dr. Shaina Raza
Applied ML Scientist Responsible AI,
Vector institute

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Dr. Shaina Raza is an Applied Machine Learning Scientist, Responsible AI, at the Vector Institute, specializing in Responsible AI, multimodal and agentic AI evaluation, fairness, AI safety, and sustainable AI. She leads and contributes to research on trustworthy AI evaluation frameworks, deepfake detection, bias mitigation, and responsible deployment of advanced AI systems. Her work spans both academic research and industry-facing initiatives, including Horizon Europe projects and open-source Responsible AI tools. She has been recognized as a Responsible AI Leader of the Year 2025 and an Emerging Leader 2026, and was named among Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientists in 2025.

TALK TITLE:

Responsible AI Beyond Accuracy: Fairness, Safety, and Sustainability

TRACK:

Evals & Benchmarks

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ABSTRACT:

As AI systems evolve from standalone models to increasingly autonomous agents, evaluation must evolve with them. Traditional benchmarks often focus on model-level accuracy, while real-world performance also depends on tools, memory, environments, context selection, orchestration, and the surrounding agent harness. This talk examines the shift toward system-level evaluation of LLMs and agentic AI, including robustness, safety, fairness, uncertainty, computational budgets, and reproducibility. It also considers multimodal agents operating on potentially manipulated evidence, where authenticity and provenance become part of evaluation. Drawing on our work in agentic evaluation and deepfakes, we outline practical principles for assessing AI systems in realistic settings and deployments.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

Practitioners will learn how to evaluate AI systems beyond accuracy—covering fairness, safety, robustness, explainability, and sustainability—so they can identify risks earlier, choose more efficient evaluation strategies, and make better deployment decisions.

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