Yarden Ravid

 Car Crashes – Using data science to help people during this life crisis

Yarden Ravid

Yarden Ravid

Car Crashes – Using data science to help people during this life crisis

Yarden Ravid

Bio

Yarden is a Senior Data Scientist at MDgo, the technology solution powering American insurtech Sensa to support drivers during a car accident and instantly calculate damages. Yarden leads the device calibration and operational research projects within the Data Science team. Before joining MDgo, Yarden was the first data scientist at Dynamic-Infrastructures, where she solved problems in the computer vision domain. She also worked as an algorithm developer in ADVA Optical Networking, where she researched time synchronization problems. Yarden Ravid holds a B.Sc. in electrical engineering and computers with a major in communications, signal processing, and image processing from Ben-Gurion University. She served in 8200 at the signal intelligence unit.

Bio

Yarden is a Senior Data Scientist at MDgo, the technology solution powering American insurtech Sensa to support drivers during a car accident and instantly calculate damages. Yarden leads the device calibration and operational research projects within the Data Science team. Before joining MDgo, Yarden was the first data scientist at Dynamic-Infrastructures, where she solved problems in the computer vision domain. She also worked as an algorithm developer in ADVA Optical Networking, where she researched time synchronization problems. Yarden Ravid holds a B.Sc. in electrical engineering and computers with a major in communications, signal processing, and image processing from Ben-Gurion University. She served in 8200 at the signal intelligence unit.

Abstract

A car accident is a crisis. Emotional stress, physical injuries, and material losses overwhelm all involved. In the developed world, a car accident is the most traumatic experience a person will ever have. MDgo aims to support drivers during this traumatic event – and improve outcomes for the over 4 million injured and 42,000 killed in car accidents annually in the U.S. alone. To change this reality, the Data Science team at MDgo is faced with many complex challenges and forced to create innovative solutions regularly. Using a few seconds of data samples from a 3D accelerometer, we manage to predict the most important outcomes of an accident: the car damage, the injuries of all occupants, if the car is driveable, and if an ambulance should be dispatched. In this talk, I’ll show our full pipeline and share a deeper insight into some of our algorithms. I’ll illustrate how without Invading the privacy of anyone involved in the accident, our algorithms predict the necessary information to help in real-time. We compiled the largest dataset in the world of real-life car accidents and crash tests to solve one of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Abstract

A car accident is a crisis. Emotional stress, physical injuries, and material losses overwhelm all involved. In the developed world, a car accident is the most traumatic experience a person will ever have. MDgo aims to support drivers during this traumatic event – and improve outcomes for the over 4 million injured and 42,000 killed in car accidents annually in the U.S. alone. To change this reality, the Data Science team at MDgo is faced with many complex challenges and forced to create innovative solutions regularly. Using a few seconds of data samples from a 3D accelerometer, we manage to predict the most important outcomes of an accident: the car damage, the injuries of all occupants, if the car is driveable, and if an ambulance should be dispatched. In this talk, I’ll show our full pipeline and share a deeper insight into some of our algorithms. I’ll illustrate how without Invading the privacy of anyone involved in the accident, our algorithms predict the necessary information to help in real-time. We compiled the largest dataset in the world of real-life car accidents and crash tests to solve one of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Planned Agenda

8:45 Reception
9:30 Opening words by WiDS TLV ambassadors Or Basson and Noah Eyal Altman
9:40 Dr. Kira Radinski - Learning to predict the future of healthcare
10:10 Prof. Yonina Eldar - Model-Based Deep Learning: Applications to Imaging and Communications
10:40 Break
10:50 Lightning talks
12:20 Lunch & Poster session
13:20 Roundtable session & Poster session
14:05 Roundtable closure
14:20 Break
14:30 Dr. Anna Levant - 3D Metrology: Seeing the Unseen
15:00 Aviv Ben-Arie - Counterfactual Explanations: The Future of Explainable AI?
15:30 Closing remarks
15:40 End